Titans Beyond
Episode 16: Buddy Buddy
Author: Brruundin
Warning, I do not own the Titans or any other DC characters I may use.
Starfire and Jinx were on their way over to the HIVE academy. Since Brother Blood has been out of the way for some time, Slade took over again and has the students do his bidding for him. The location however was still in the same place. A place Jinx knew very well, for it was once her home. She sighed; she knew she had to return there at one point. But she wished it was on different terms.
"Is everything okay friend Jinx?" Starfire asked, wondering what could be bothering Jinx.
"Yeah, I guess it's just that these guys used to be my friends and family. It'll be a little weird to be "hanging out" with them again. I'd like to think maybe we can convince them Slade is a bad guy and they don't need him. But they're too scared to stand up to him." Jinx says, confessing everything that was bothering her to Starfire.
"Oh I think I may understand. Well we do have a mission to go about on so we must do what we can to learn where our friends are. I do not wish to harm anyone, but if we must I will be okay with it." Starfire responds, also concerned about having to fight the HIVE if things go bad.
"Don't worry about that Starfire, I'm pretty sure I can talk them into anything and you can too." Jinx responds, getting at the point that a pretty girl can get away with anything with them. As they got closer they had a decision to make, go undercover, or go as who they were and ask for membership. Jinx is the first to bring up this point.
"So umm Starfire do you think we should wear these silly disguises or just go as we are?" Jinx asks, trying to get her to answer that question.
"Hmm I shall believe we go as ourselves, your old friends shall be glad you have to come to pay them a visit." Starfire responds, stating her opinion on that issue.
"Yeah you're probably right and look we're almost here." Jinx says, and then they head up to the front door. Jinx knocks and the two wait for someone to come to open it. No answer, so they knock again. They hear movement and a familiar voice is heard.
"I'm coming, I'm coming geez hold your horses" the voice says, and the door opens. It's Gizmo and he's shocked at what he sees.
"Crud, it's you Titans. What are you two doing here?" Gizmo asks, very confused as to why Jinx and Starfire would just come and knock on his door.
"Hey it's nice to see you too Gizmo. Can't I just stop by and hang out like old times?" Jinx says sarcastically, since her welcome was anything but warm.
"No! Why are you here? You're one of those goody goodies now." Gizmo says, not buying Jinx's answer.
"Oh relax, what if I was telling you we were here to join up with you guys. With Robin gone, Starfire and I decided it would be nice to join a team that actually sticks together for once." Jinx says, sweet talking her way through a lie to get what she wanted.
"Hmm well that sounds nice but how do I know you're not trying to just pull a fast one on us and beat us up while were sleeping." Gizmo says, still not fully convinced about what Jinx was there for.
"Gizmo, if me and Starfire wanted to, we could beat you up right here and now and you know this. So get that out of your head; just trust me Gizmo as I've always been your friend." Jinx says very sweetly. Gizmo kind of blushes when she does this and decides to listen to her. It couldn't hurt to have more help around here.
"Alright alright, you guys can stay here but no funny business got it?" Gizmo says, hoping nothing bad would happen.
"Of course friend Gizmo, we wish no harm upon you I promise." Starfire says, genuinely being sincere about it.
"Okay cool well, I guess I'll show your old room Jinx, does Starfire want to stay with you? Because we don't have any extra rooms besides your old one." Gizmo asks as they head inside.
"Oh no that shall do wonderful thank you very much, Jinx and I are such good friends." Starfire responds.
"Yeah that's cool with me Gizmo." Jinx says, nicely as she steps back inside. As she looked around she was immediately disgusted. When she had lived here, the place stayed clean and tidy. She couldn't stay in a dirty house, and whenever the boys made a mess she made them clean it up. Though it looks like they don't do a very good job of that anymore as the place was a complete pigsty with old pizza boxes, clothes and trash everywhere, it even smelt horrible!
"Oh my goodness you guys, you can't even keep this place clean! We're going to fix this." Jinx says, shaking her head in disgust.
"Yeah, we don't mind it so we just kinda deal with it. Hey guys looks whose here to stay for a while" Gizmo said notifying the others members of the HIVE.
Mammoth, See-More, Kyd Wykkyd and Billy Numerous all get up from the couches and head over to see.
"Woah what are you guys doing here? See-More asks, and the others kind of nod and agree with him.
"Oh I see you all missed me too. Well basically me and Starfire are going be hanging with you guys for a while." Jinx says, responding to See-More's question.
"Well Billy likes that you two are here isn't that right Billy!"
"Yeah Billy that's right Billy!" Billy Numerous says with his normal antics, cloning himself for a sense of comic.
"Oh cute, I missed you Billies!" Jinx says, giving each Billy so far a hug and kiss on the check. Even though they were supposed to be enemies, Jinx still always cared about her friends.
The other two were quiet. Usually because they just were. Kyd Wykkyd was just quiet type and Mammoth was struck in awe that Starfire was here. He always thought she was beautiful. Maybe this was his chance to get with her.
"Alright enough of this lovey reunion business let's get you settled in." Gizmo said, leading Starfire and Jinx upstairs to their room. As soon as Gizmo opened the door, Jinx eyes opened wide, she was expecting it to be a mess. However, it wasn't at all. It was exactly the way it was when she left. Purple everywhere. All her posters left in tack, bed made, and no mess on the floor. Just the way Jinx liked it.
"Oh Gizmo, you guys didn't touch my room. That's so sweet." Jinx says, while grabbing Gizmo and hugging him tightly. He was very uncomfortable with this and tried to push her away.
"Jinx let go you're hurting me!" Gizmo says, while trying to get her to let go.
"Yeah sorry Gizmo, it just means a lot to me that you did this." Jinx says, really touched that the boy didn't destroy her room.
"Yeah See-More was the one who suggested we leave it that way. He felt it would be wrong of us just to mess with it."
"Well I appreciate it I really do." Jinx says, and then looks at Starfire.
"Oh Gizmo, is there a way we could get another bed up here and put it in that corner?" Jinx says, pointing to the empty corner in the room.
"Um yeah… let me go ask Mammoth. I think there's an extra one in the basement." Gizmo says, looking around while trying to answer Jinx's question.
"Wonderful, thank you so very much for all the help and letting us stay here friend Gizmo. I shall hope to be an excellent member or your team." Starfire says, thanking Gizmo and the others for being so nice about it.
"Yeah no problem Starfire, well let me go ask Mammoth about that bed. If it's there, we'll have it up here no time. Just let us know if you need anything else." Gizmo says while heading downstairs.
"Oh and Jinx…" Gizmo says while walking out the door.
"Yeah Gizmo?"
"Welcome Back" Gizmo says, smiling and the heads out the door downstairs. Jinx's face lights up. That's all she wanted, to be loved and accepted by her old friends. She then turns to Starfire to talk about what's happened so far.
"See how is it is Star" Jinx says, grinning at Starfire.
"Oh friend Jinx, you are very much right in your assumption." Starfire says, and the two hug each other.
Jinx was super excited; she got to be back in a place she basically grew up in, with just the cutest girl ever. Then with Robin gone maybe they could even be more than friends? Who knows, but she really hopes for that. She sighs.
"Oh friend Jinx, why do you go about constantly sighing?" Starfire asks, curious about what was going on in her friend's mind.
"Starfire it's nothing don't worry about it." Jinx lied, there was so much on her mind, but she couldn't tell her yet. She wasn't really for that and she knew Starfire probably wouldn't be either. Not with it being so soon after Robin left.
Gizmo and Mammoth then come upstairs bringing the spare bed. After they lay it down, Jinx gets some extra sheets and a comforter from her drawer and lays it out and makes up a bed for Starfire. It was getting late though and Jinx and Starfire started yawning.
"Looks like it's getting late, we should probably head to bed. We got a lot of work to do in the morning Star." The two of them hug then head into their beds and try to get some sleep.
Hours pass, and Jinx can't fall asleep, it was cold in the house and she couldn't get warm. An idea popped into her head.
"Hey Starfire…" Jinx says in a soft voice, trying not to wake her if she wasn't awake already. She doesn't respond other than few light groans. Hmm I don't think she would get mad if I crawled into bed with her. Jinx thought and then decides to head over to her bed. She quietly steps over to her bed slowly, as too not wake her up. Once she heads over to the bed she slowly peels back the sheets and slides in the other side of Starfire. It was much warmer over here and it felt nice. She lightly touches Starfire to see if she would notice. She didn't wake up however she did seem happier when she touched her. She then wraps her arms around Starfire and brushes her front against Star's backside. This made Jinx feel so much better, and she knew she would fall asleep soon.
"Goodnight Star" Jinx says, and kisses her on the back of her neck. She falls shortly after. A couple hours later Jinx is awoken by a soft touch to arm. She slowly opens her eyes and sees Starfire looking down at her.
"Oh hey Starfire how's it going?" Jinx says, trying to make it not awkward that Jinx and her slept in the same bed.
"Oh I am just wonderful this fine morning friend Jinx, but I was curious to know how you ended up in the same bed as I" Starfire asks, in a very nice way.
"Oh sorry about that Starfire, I got really cold in my bed because it gets cold in this room late at night. I couldn't sleep so I decided to crawl in yours. I hope that's okay. It put me to sleep right away." Jinx says, then giggles a little bit.
"Oh of course not friend, I'm glad I could make you feel more comfortable" Starfire says, and she leans in hugs her friend.
"Alright good, well I guess we should go ask about the Titans East, since that was the whole reason we came here. Play it cool though and let me do the talking, I don't want it to become hostile." Jinx says, letting her know what the plan was.
"Sounds like a good plan to me friend Jinx!" Starfire says, as the two of them head to the living room. When down there, the HIVE were just sitting around watching TV. The place looked cleaner, which pleased Jinx; they really did care what she thought.
"Hey umm See-More can I talk to you in private." Jinx asks See-More the one she thought would be the most cooperative.
"Yeah of course Jinx" and the two of them head over to the kitchen to talk.
"So what's up Jinx haha" See-More asks, very curious to what Jinx wanted.
"Alright so listen to me. I really do love you guys like a family, and Starfire also has grown to like you all. However, the Titans are and have always been friends first. We know Slade made you guys take over Titans East. And as much as we want to ally with you, we can't until we know they are safe and able to help. So See-More as your friend, can you please help us. I know you guys don't really want to work for Slade, and with the Titans' help you won't have to work for it anymore." Jinx says, confessing the plan to See-More who was initially shocked at first, but before he spoke, he decided to think about this request.
"Wow, Jinx I don't know what to say…" He pauses, and then continues his statement "Well, I'd love to help you but I have to talk it over with the others first. Then we'll let you know. So just wait here okay?" See-More says, as he heads into the living room to call a meeting. While in the kitchen, Jinx can sort of make out what they are talking about in Gizmo's room down the hall. A few minutes later See-More heads back into the kitchen.
"Alright so, we thought about it and we're going to help you guys out" See-More pauses, and waits for Jinx to respond.
She immediately hugs him, and lets him go ahead and finish.
"Alright so the Titans East are held hostage underneath the HIVE Academy building in the training room. But don't worry we've been feeding them and taking care of them as best as we can. Slade basically told us just to keep an eye on them. However, that was three days ago, and I don't think he has anything else to do with them. So we're going to let them go on one condition…" See-More says while taking a seat at the table.
"Alright… what do you want?" Jinx asks.
"Well, we want to have an alliance with the Titans, we're tired of getting our butts kicked all the time when we do commit crimes. Could you please stop interfering with our fun all the time? We'll try to scale back on the bad things but we really don't want to fight you guys anymore. I think some of the guys including myself even want to be good from now on. It's Gizmo who is gonna need convincing. So what do you say?" See-More says, putting his proposition out on the line.
"Well sounds like a deal. I'll talk to the other Titans about it in a few minutes, in the meantime, you and Starfire go downstairs, explain all this to her and have her tell them what's going on. Hopefully they won't try to hurt you for keeping them down there. I wouldn't be too happy about it." Jinx say's in a jokingly matter, although the mission was much more serious. So then See-More heads downstairs with Starfire while Jinx gets on the communicator. Looks like it will be turning around for the Titans after all.
A/N Episode 16 is complete! Looks like the Titans East are okay! With a possible HIVE alliance with the Titans finally have enough manpower to stop Slade's evil doing? Find out on the next update when find out what Raven/Cyborg/Aqualad were up to! As always review please! (:
