Kid Flash and Jinx walked along the high street of Jump city together, Kid Flash might have been in uniform but Jinx wasn't sure exactly if she was or not.
"I can't believe you're actually WALKING somewhere." Jinx commented wryly as they walked by a florists and she pointedly ignored the roses in their stands.
"Hey! My feet are my main means of transport!" Kid Flash protested.
"Yes, but not at this speed." Jinx pointed out as they rounded a corner onto another busy street.
"Okay okay, point taken." He conceded, holding his hands up in defeat.
"So is this all your hero types do all day? Just wander around aimlessly?" Jinx asked looking at him out of the corner of her eyes, he was still watching her with that silly little smile on.
"Well yeah, but usually a lot faster than this," Kid Flash answered, he pouted at Jinx, "you make it sound so boring."
"You're just a high-speed bum aren't you? Just wandering around doing nothing." She smirked at him, her pink eyes flashing deviously.
"Hey! I take offence to that!" he said indignantly, "You know for someone who's no longer a bad guy, you sure can be mean." He said shoving her playfully.
"Hey yourself! Just because I'm no longer a member of the HIVE five-" Jinx began getting cut short at Kid Flash interrupted her.
"Who are now, thanks to you, numerically correct." Kid Flash chipped in, Jinx gave him the glare of death, he fell silent.
"As I was saying, just because I'm not a member of the HIVE five anymore doesn't mean I'm good. I'm just… between jobs is all." Jinx sniffed indignantly, Kid Flash smirked at her.
"Suuuure." He said rolling his eyes.
"Right! You don't believe me? I'm going to go steal something then!" She shouted at him.
"Like what?" He asked her raising an eyebrow.
"I don't know, gum or something, just ANYTHING!" She retorted poking him in the chest.
"Gum eh? I'd better alert the Justice league to the level of crime that's rampant in this city." Kid Flash teased her, Jinx's face turned crimson with anger, with a level of enjoyment he watched a vein twitch in her temple.
"Fine! But let this be on your conscience Kid Flash, that YOU, a HERO, drove me to stealing." Jinx shouted stomping off towards the corner shop.
"How ever will I sleep at night?" Kid Flash giggled pressing his hand to his forehead in a mock-damsel-in-distress way, after a moment of Jinx not turning around to look he followed her curiously. He peered around the door and saw Jinx standing staring at the gum in the sweet section.
"What? Don't think I'm going to do it?" She demanded when she saw him looking, the shop owner looked perplexed at their presence.
"You're seriously going to do this?" He asked disbelievingly.
"Yes." Jinx answered picking up some strawberry gum.
"You're going to commit a crime just for gum?" Kid Flash asked stunned.
"No, I'm going to commit a crime to prove you wrong." Jinx corrected him heading for the door.
"Ah!" Kid Flash said appearing in front of her and blocking her way to the door. "So it's not stealing that you actually want to do, it's just any crime?" He asked with a small smirk.
"I suppose. Why? Do you have a preference about crimes you'd like me to commit?" Jinx asked confused.
"Well… being nude in public is a crime if you really have to commit any crime I wouldn't say no to that." He said quietly, his grin speaking volumes.
"I believe grevious bodily harm is a crime as well." Jinx glowered at him, she paused, "in fact…" She trailed off before flinging the gum packet at Kid Flash's face.
"Ow!" He yelped as Jinx stormed out of the shop, in a blur of speed Kid Flash was walking next to her once again.
"You got me in the eye! Ow." He muttered rubbing his eye.
"Serves you right." She muttered irritated at knowing he'd talked her out of a crime, out of petty theft no less!
"I'd really have preferred you being naked." He added blinking in an attempt to get his normal vision back.
"With your health in mind I shall ignore that comment." Jinx said curtly.
"Hey! Snotbrain!" A voice from behind them called, Jinx looked over at Kid Flash.
"I believe he's talking to you." Jinx said to him as she turned around to face her ex-team standing in the road.
"What do you want Gizmo? You know I could just arrest you right here and now." Kid Flash shouted back at the bald little man.
"But you won't, and you know what? It's because I have this." Gizmo grinned whipping out a small black controller with a big red button on it.
"You have a big red button? I'm very happy for you." Kid flash said flatly.
"No, it's a level four containment field, and don't bother trying to take it off of me, its set to turn itself on if you do. This is only the remote anyway, the real controller is up on a satellite that's orbiting the city at this very moment, and if I'm not mistaken, space is somewhere that you can't go. The second you're off the ground your powers are useless." Gizmo grinned evilly.
"Well considering as you just told me your "master plan" what makes you think you'll be able to catch me then? Fastest boy alive remember?" Kid Flash smirked air-quoting his sentence, he looked over at the HIVE five, god were they ever idiots, why on Earth had Jinx ever given them the time of day?
"Oh Kid Flash…" Gizmo smirked pressing the button, a huge beam of light shot down from the sky, Kid Flash stepped neatly out the way.
"You're assuming I was trying to hit YOU." Gizmo laughed with satisfaction as Jinx fell to the floor with an agonized yelp, Kid Flash's eyes widened as arcs of electricity ran along Jinx's body.
"What the hell do you think that's going to achieve apart from making me angrier?!" Kid Flash demanded angrily.
"You forget, you're one of those hero types, and we're most definitely not." Gizmo laughed, Kid Flash realised all too late that he'd been making the HIVE five back up.
"Goodbye Kid Flash." Gizmo waved pressing another button on his remote. Off to the side explosions emitted from the giant skyscraper off to their right.
"WHAT?! NO! You'll kill Jinx!" Mammoth shouted as the building began to topple towards Jinx and Kid Flash.
"That's the idea big guy, that's the idea." Gizmo said with a grin so evil it would put brother blood to shame. Kid Flash stared for a moment at the slowly toppling building before zipping off in the other direction.
"Kid… Flash…" Jinx managed to force the words out of her lungs. He'd… abandoned her? The dark shadow of the building enveloped her, it would all be over very soon, Jinx squeezed her eyes shut. The teardrop that fell from her face sizzled as it hit the containment field.
"Wally…" She said under her breath.