A/N: Personally, I love the Jhin-Caitlyn dynamic whether you support them as a pairing or not (I don't, but I can see why some people do).

Let this sink in, they are both riflemen, both use their mind over strength, are calm, cool, and collected, and both are absolutely focussed on their goals. But for some reason, they are on opposite ends of the law.

Once again, not my preferred pairing, but it can work. Potential mad chemistry to work with, homies.

P.s. Originally, the title of this chapter was going to be "20 Minutes," but then I realized you're all gonna fucking crucify me for making such a bad pun.

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Hell: The Sequel

The Fields of Justice lit up as Summoner's Rift roared to life. Her teammates stood ready for the barriers to fall and make their way onto the battlefield.

Beside her was Camille in the top lane, her second-in-command Vi in the jungle, Jayce manning the middle lane, and both herself and the Piltover/Zaunite guardian Blitzcrank in the bottom lane.

"Ayyyyy! We got the Piltover Czars street crew today!" Vi shouted enthusiastically. "Woo-hoo!"

"Please don't be so crass, Enforcer," Camille stated calmly.

"Yeah… don't give us gang names..." Jayce muttered off-handedly before he made his way to the middle lane.

Caitlyn remained silent, however. Her lane opponent was the infamous Khada Jhin. Months ago, the Golden Demon launched an attack on Piltover, an act of terrorism that still haunted the Sheriff through many sleepless nights.

She shook the memories away, and with her head down low, briskly made her way to the bottom lane. There, she found the subject of her frequent nightmares seated comfortably on a tree stump.

"And so we meet again, Ms. Caitlyn…" the man with the silver mask chuckled. "I truly apologize for the destruction of your headquarters, but I needed to set the stage somehow."

"Save it," Caitlyn shot back. The many mechanical parts of her complex rifle whirred to life as it was brandished at its target. "You will pay, Jhin. I will bring you to justice."

"CHARGED AND READY TO SERVE!" her robotic companion announced as he pounded his fists together.

"More bodies to collect, heheheh…" the wind whispered as the legendary Bilgewater Reaver appeared from the shadows.

The cold, silver mask of her counterpart made it difficult to determine the emotions coursing through him as Caitlyn watched the Whisper being assembled. Jhin gave a look to Pyke, who returned a nasty grin.

"Very well, my dear…" Jhin announced as the turret shields became activated.

"MINIONS HAVE SPAWNED!"

"If you're shooting to kill, you better hit the heart."

"My, my… that's the 14th minion you've missed. Something on your mind, Sheriff?

Caitlyn grit her teeth. She was not going to let Jhin get inside her head… Though that was proving a little difficult.

"He has a point, Cait," her summoner Kylic communicated to her. "I've never seen you this off while farming."

"I'm fine," she responded, though a bit sharper than she intended. "Keep an eye on the map, and I'll focus on my lane."

"Alrighty, then. Don't let him get to you Caitlyn, this is my Diamond 4 promos after all."

And with that, the telepathic connection was cut for the time being. The lane continued relatively quietly for the next few minutes as both marksmen farmed their minion waves. Pyke disappeared in and out of lane, but for never more than a few seconds at most. That worried Caitlyn… that is until Blitzcrank landed several key hooks, blowing every single summoner spell that their opposing duo possessed and swinging the laning phase into their favour.

"Once Vi comes, this lane is over," she thought as a bright blue light flashed around her causing her to smirk in victory. Though a few minions were missed earlier, Caitlyn kept up in experience and now she was level 6.

"Great! You've hit 6!" her summoner applauded. "Which means… I can drop off your mod kit!"

A camouflage-coloured briefcase magically appeared under her tower, and she signalled to Blitzcrank that she would be back quickly. Opening the kit, she eyed over the various scopes, magazines, and modifiers for her rifle that she painstakingly crafted by hand in her workshop.

After a few seconds of riflework, Caitlyn could now use her ultimate skill: "The Ace in the Hole" and dominate the lane completely. Caitlyn strutted back to lane, confident Jhin would not even consider pushing the lane unless he was looking for a quick death.

Much to her surprise, he did exactly that, suddenly clearing the wave at a rapid pace; missing some of the minions even. It was Caitlyn's turn to smirk.

"Before you can criticize others, it's a good idea to work on your own minion count." An enormous wave was pushing towards her turret, allowing her the option to either freeze the minion wave as she pleased and blow ahead of her lane opponent in farm or...

To go for the kill.

Caitlyn preferred the second option and unless the Jhin-Pyke duo recalled after their blunderous mistake, that was exactly what was going to happen. However, her eyebrows furrowed in confusion at their next move. Not only did they stay, but they were right beneath her outer turret with Vi pathing her way to the lane.

"They were walking up?... for what exactly?..."

Then suddenly, it happened.

A bright flare of summoner magic diverted her attention without warning and she whipped her body around just in time to see the cause.

A ward.

"It's a trap, Cait!" Jayce's voice blared into her mind. Get out! Now!

But it was too late.

Far behind them, from near their bottom inner turret Kayn sat lazily right outside its target range, having cleared out the entire minion wave.

And then the teleports were complete. Not one, but two enemy champions arrived on the previously unseen ward.

Urgot.

Katarina.

Kayn.

Jhin.

Pyke.

It was a 5-man tower dive at the bottom lane.

Caitlyn's eyes widened in horror as both she and Blitzcrank were slowly being corralled under their turret with nowhere to go as the entire enemy team drew closer.

"Is that fear I smell?" Katarina taunted. "Nowhere to run, little sheriff…"

She caught the voices of her teammate's frantic calls for assistance and the immediate follow of teleports to the bottom lane, but it was far too late.

The last image she saw was that of Jhin, level 6 as well, assemble his own rifle and enter a firing position.

"Curtains... down..."

The Piltover 4, plus Blitzcrank remained speechless at their fountain.

"Communication," Camille spoke up, breaking the silence. "It seems that is what we are lacking today," she said as their nexus turrets began to fall.

"Hey, hey now…" Jayce said with both hands raised. "The new patch doesn't let us cancel our teleports anymore. Don't pine this all on us, lady."

"I was not reprimanding you, Defender. Remember that I enacted my teleport as well," Camille responded, her eyes now resting firmly on Caitlyn.

"She does have a point, Cait…" Vi sighed. "We pinged our lanes missing several times and I saw Kayn plant that ward at our Krugs. We called for you both to recall a good minute ago, but…"

"But she didn't listen," Camille interjected, much to the chagrin of Caitlyn.

Shortly after the rift announcer declared in her signature voice "Ace!", the enemy team took the 2 bottom turrets, the dragonーan infernal dragon at thatー and then the rift herald shortly afterwards. Caitlyn's team tried to fight back even after she and Blitzcrank died, but it was futile.

Pyke picked up all but 2 kills during the dive and his gold-sharing ultimate snowballed their entire team monstrously ahead of everyone else. A hail-mary play was attempted when a key hook from Blitzcrank caught Jhin and a glimmer of hope appeared for a brief second… until it was revealed it was another trap laid by the Golden Demon.

While Jhin did die, another ace was obtained and the baron shortly afterwards. Before 20 minutes had even passed, Caitlyn's team found themselves cornered into their own base as their nexus turrets fell around them.

Caitlyn only hung her head low as the bright explosion of her team's nexus enveloped the entirety of Summoner's Rift. The game was lost because of her.

"Defeat."

"We'll get them next time," Vi said as she patted Caitlyn on the shoulder. Camille and Jayce sighed before walking through the Chamber's massive gateway along with Vi, all three conversing on how the game could have ended better. The Noxians barely said a word to anyone before they activated the League's teleporting apparatuses in the same room and vanished themselves with Kayn and Pyke following shortly after. Jhin was the last to leave, glancing back at her for a split second before he did.

This left Caitlyn alone in the lightless, marbled room with silence as her only company.

A myriad of emotions darted across her mind, but the most confusing one was… shock.

For years, she had prided herself on her mind, outsmarting criminals and staying multiple steps ahead of them. But just when they thought they caught up, they would fall prey to a pit trap set many days in advance.

But this time, she was on the receiving end. Caitlyn won her lane matchup, but Jhin's psychological ploys won his team the game. It was almost like a reversal of roles where she was the foolish criminal recklessly charging headfirst into the fray while Jhin was the calm and collected sheriff that routed her effortlessly.

This time, Jhin was… her.

"This isn't over," she muttered as she made her way to the teleporting stations. She turned the dial several times until her destination appeared on the bright green screen. When she returned to Piltover, she would devise a plan, one grand and complex enough to bring down the Golden Demon and the Ionians responsible for unleashing him onto her city.

"In the end, I will always catch you…"

Little did Caitlyn know, that this would be the last time the League of Legends opened its doors for the foreseeable future.

Fin.

Or is it?