Jinx appeared in a blaze of pink. Gizmo was the only one not startled as he was on his back under a console in the Hive Five's lair. Mammoth was about to dump a hero sub in his mouth whole but decided jumping away from the eruption of probability would be the best thing at the moment. Seemore simply fell backwards in his chair and when he landed his 'eyes' spun like a slot machine. Sgt. Hive just jumped a little.
"Hey, babe. You're back.", Sgt. Hive greeted after calming. He then walked up and put a possessive arm around Jinx.
Jinx' pupils narrowed into slits. "What have I told you about touching me?", she cautioned.
"Oh, that was just your time of the month. Being a woman you can't really mean anything. After all I'm the highest ranking member here an/" And Sgt. Hive found himself on his back after Jinx used the arm around her to flip him.
"I'm tired of you acting with military chauvenism!", she screeched. Sgt. Hive pulled up his shield and Jinx' hand busted right through it as if her blow just happenned to land on its only week spot. "I'm tired of you acting as if I actually like you!", she continued while stomping on his throat. "I'm tired of...you."
Jinx brought her foot up and down a few more times. She shook her head in disgust. "Mammoth!"
Mammoth poked his head from behind a counter top, as every other member of the team had taken cover as soon as Jinx started the beating. His sandwich hung out of his mouth limply. "Uh...yeah?"
"Get rid of this fool. He doesn't have a power you don't do better. He's more incompetent than the rest of us put together before the Red X came and went. He thinks he's worth something instead of the charity case he is, despite the fact he knows we only took him in because he went to Hive Academy. He even thinks people actually like him.", Jinx explained animatedly.
She kicked Sgt. Hive again. The glowing pink tip of her boot caught him between his six pack and side muscles, where there no musclese to stop the force of the blow. "I hate you so much.", Jinx spat at him.
"Gizmo, get me a list of potential replacements.", she called out. Then she stalked off.
Later, there was a soft knock on her door. "Hey Jinx.", Gizmo called out. "I got the list you wanted."
"Come on in.", Jinx told him nearly too softly to be heard.
Gizmo poked an automated periscope in first. Once deciding it was safe, he entered. "You okay, Jinx?", he asked with actual concern.
Jinx smiled wistfully at him. "I'm sorry."
She walked over to him and picked him up as if he was a toddler and not a child. With him in her arms, she walked back over to her bed and sat down with Gizmo in her lap. It was the same bed the Red X had 'given' her.
"That idiot just makes me so mad.", Jinx started to explain. "He was a charity case. We're the bad guys and he was a charity case to us, yet he acts like he can just keep taking advantage."
Gizmo returned her nurturing embrace. "Don't send a surge through what I'm wearing.", he started. "But isn't that what the Red X did to all of us. You mostly, sure. But didn't..."
Jinx scoffed. "He was competent. If you never noticed, that's something we sorely lack. Anytime we go for a big prize or even too long on piddly stuff, we get our butts handed back to us with bow ties. He hurt...us, and me. But he did what we needed be done."
Jinx gestured around. "We wouldn't have been able to even get this lair if it wasn't for the time the Red X spent with us. Anyway, I was strong enough to endure what he did to me."
"That's what this new plan is about, isn't it?", Gizmo asked. "Justifying going through that. You know you don't have to."
"Of course, I have to.", Jinx countered. "There's no other way to become the power I can."
"That's not what I meant.", Gizmo explained. "I meant that you don't have to do it for us. I'll take an ass whuppin' any day to keep you from that pain again."
"I know what I'm doing.", Jinx replied. "We're jokes. The academy we were at got taken down by force that was outnumbered 6 or 7 to 1. We got put down that time that Slade guy was shopping for an apprentice. And don't even make me remember the old chick with the pie."
"We have got to make something of ourselves. I won't let us be jokes all our lives. Can you imagine being this incompetent when we're adults? Sure, you've got a decade to go but Mammoth and I are nearly there already. Seemore's not too far behind us. I won't let all my friends just wittle away into has beens when I have the potential to slap the JLA's Watchtower out of orbit."
Gizmo sighed then nodded. "Okay. Here take this."
He held out a small...gizmo. "This is the greatest hacking tool I've ever made. If this is inside the T they live in, it'll record every single magnetic field in the place. On top of that, it's powered by the interference those fields make so it's totally passive. This beauty will even send all that data back to me. I'll be able to interpret every piece of information that gets put anywhere electronically-from Cyborg's nerves firing to stomp around to their entire database when it's backed up at night. After you leave it in a place that nobody will happen to look for it the next time you go to see Raven, we'll have all their secrets."
Gizmo slid off her lap and walked toward the door. "And for what it's worth-good luck."
Gizmo walked out the door leaving it open. Jinx could hear the ensuing
"So who did she pick between Kid Wicked and Billy Numerous?", Mammoth asked.
"Oh, I know I forgot something.", Gizmo replied.
"What do you mean, you forgot? Your sole power his hyper intelligence!", Seemore chastised.
"My power is invention, you stick figure seat smeller!", Gizmo replied. "Maybe I forgot because besides doing everything you can't do, I'm doing everything you're supposed to be doing!"
"She's gonna have to choose somebody.", Mammoth assured. "I'm not being on a team called the Hex Six. You know where that'll go."
"You'll be on any team you're told to, including the Mammoth sucks my/", but Gizmo was cut off by Seemore.
"Hex Sex is what they'll call us.", Seemore informed.
"That's nothing.", Mammoth countered. "Hick's Six, Hex Sluts..."
