"Tacos!" Mammoth cried gleefully as the HIVE five stood on the corner of the street.
"Tacos, burritos, fajitas, anything you want my friend." Jinx grinned up at him.
"Awesome, there ain't nothing better than a free lunch!" Billy numerous laughed happily.
"Why don't you do it Jinx? You missed out on last night's robbery, how'd you thing go by the way?" See-More asked looking up at her with his big green eye.
"Fell through." Jinx shrugged strolling over to the taco stand.
"Gimmie six tacos!" Jinx ordered as she drew level with the man in the taco stand.
"Oh gods, not YOU lot again, why do you have to rob me every time? You're scum you are!" The man snarled at her. Jinx was taken aback at this, no one talked back to her.
"Hey! I never even said I was robbing you! I just asked for some damn tacos!" Jinx snapped at him.
"Oh yeah, surprise me then." The man growled at her.
"Fine! Now gimmie some goddamn tacos!" Jinx shouted thrusting money at him. The man shoved a cardboard tray at her begrudgingly, Jinx took it and poked her bright pink tongue out at him.
"Jinx! Did you just… pay for something?" Gizmo gasped as he scuttled over to the slightly shell shocked Jinx.
"I… I think so." Jinx stammered just as surprised herself, in her moment of distraction the boys all grabbed their food.
"But… it's not free food now, it's not the same." Billy Neumerous.
"It's free for you isn't it?" Jinx pointed out taking out her irritation on him.
"But…" Billy Neumerous continued only to find his taco exploding hotly in his face, he squeaked brushing hot food off of his face in an attempt to prevent scalding. Sensing something bad was about to happen, she always had an idea about bad luck even if she had nothing to do with it. She looked up seeing a huge telephone mast toppling down in their direction, she gasped, it was going to crush the taco stand! Instinctively she shot out her hand causing the pavement to explode sending people and taco stand alike safely out of the way of the falling pylon.
"Did… did you just save people?" See-More said after a moment's silence.
"What? No! I just saved the taco stand, they're the only ones that don't put crappy salsa on everything." Jinx huffed annoyed.
"Anyone else was just-" jinx paused, she was about to say a bonus, but it wasn't a bonus. She didn't want to save people. "Just… collateral." She finished. Slowly a scalding sensation burnt into her arm, she yelped and shook it, seeing the contents of her taco up her arm and burning her.
"Oh that is IT." She growled jumping up on the Pylon, whoever did this was going to pay. Stalking along the metal she dropped down into a wide alleyway to see Kid Flash and Cinderblock fighting.
"ALRIGHT!" Jinx shouted making both of them jump and look at her.
"What idiot knocked this over and nearly crushed my favorite taco stand… and you know… people or whatever?" Jinx demanded, Kid Flash quickly pointed at Cinderblock. Jinx's eyes narrowed and glowed pink, Cinderblock's feet crashed through the floor into the sewer below, he was stuck up to his waist when, unluckily for him a cement truck's breaks failed and it careened backwards down the alleyway covering the would be criminal in cement.
"That'll teach you, ruin my favorite shirt." Jinx muttered brushing bits of taco off of it annoyed. Kid Flash's eyes widened as he leapt up onto the pylon.
"Does this mean you're turning good?" Kid Flash asked eagerly as he looked at her with hopeful blue eyes.
"That's a stupid question." Jinx snorted turning away from him only to come face to face with her teammates.
"No it's not Jinx. Who's side are you on anyway? Striking down a fellow villain, saving people?" Gizmo demanded in a voice that sounded unusually serious.
"I'm on the same side I always was, my side. That wasn't heroism, that was vengeance you morons." Jinx pointed out glaring at them.
"And the Taco stand?" See-More asked sadly.
"Self preservation, they do good tacos, I don't want to have to find somewhere else as good when I can just have that. What is this? The Spanish inquisition?" Jinx demanded her hands on her hips.
"Jinx one of us." Mammoth stated between bites of tacos, he didn't care that they'd been on the floor. Whilst Jinx knew this was a statement and not a question, the other's interpreted it differently.
"Good question big guy, are you one of us Jinx? What about those people ya didn't have tah save them." Billy Neumerous pointed out puffing his chest out in a superior manner.
"You saved people too?" Kid Flash gasped in delight.
"No! I mean they weren't squished, but I didn't MEAN to save them!" Jinx shouted angrily at him.
"Traitor." Gizmo said coldly as he leveled his laser at her. Jinx eyes went wide with shock then narrowed at him.
"You wouldn't, you don't have the guts little man, I'M the leader around here. That'd be mutiny and you know it." Jinx growled, she was so caught off guard that she only just dodged the laser that went by and left a considerable burnt groove in her arm. Jinx gripped her arm, her eyes flaring the brightest Kid Flash had ever seen as See-More's eye malfunctioned, sending him running around temporarily blinded, Gizmo's backpack malfunctioned sending him shooting up into the sky taking billy neumerous with him, Kyd Wykkyd's cape swallowed him whole temporarily transporting him somewhere, Mammoth skidded backwards a little but seemed completely unfazed by this.
Jinx turned on her heel and ran off in the opposite direction clutching her wounded arm.
"ah! Jinx! Wait!" Kid Flash called after her and zipped off.
Mammoth chewed on his taco slowly before picking up the blinded See More and heading off the find Gizmo and Billy.
"Leave me alone!" Jinx shouted her feet pounding on the pavement in an attempt to get away from Kid Flash even though she knew it would do no good.
"You, you left your team, you saved people! You're a good guy I knew it!" Kid Flash laughed happily as he appeared in front of her.
"In case you missed that, they just abandoned me, not the other way around! And I told you, it was an accident!" Jinx snarled weakly as she held her throbbing arm.
"You don't make mistakes Jinx, you're always precise with your hexes, you wanted to save them." Kid Flash smiled gently rubbing her arm. Jinx pulled herself away from him.
"I did no such thing. Leave me alone." She breathed turning away from him and walking off. Kid Flash glanced down at his hand, it felt hot. His eyes widened, it was covered in blood, a slow realization dawned, it wasn't his blood…
"Jinx! You're bleeding really badly, you need a doctor or something!" he insisted grabbing her by both arms and forcing her to look at him.
"And be put into jail for my trouble? No thanks." Jinx argued struggling to get away, she was too weak.
"I promise I won't let them take you, I'll tell them you're reformed!" Kid Flash insisted.
"I'm not reformed." Jinx retorted, her eyes flickering. Kid Flash frowned when Jinx's head flopped forwards onto his chest and he knew she was unconscious. He picked her up gently avoiding her arm and vanished into the distance.
Unnoticed by Kid Flash Mammoth had been watching and, slowly and deliberately, like the moving of an iceberg, Mammoth followed after.