A/N: I don't own Kim Possible, Jinx, or any of the characters from any of the shows. This story idea came to me while watching too much TV as I recovered from surgery. This story takes place instead of Dimension Twist at that time in the Kim Possible TV Show and after The Brotherhood of Evil season finale for Teen Titans TV Show.

I was just released from the hospital on February 16th, so I've been out of things for a while please bare with me as I play 'catch up'.

'Speech"

'Thought'

This was my first short story (I hope! They, the stories just kept growing like that bio-thingy in KP's 'Mother's Day'.)

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CRISSCROSS

6. The Bojutsu Duel

The more Jinx thought about it, the more she liked it. If she wanted to know anything about the blond boy and his carrot topped girlfriend, that they both claim are best friends only, she needed to talk to someone who knew them longer than she had, the Green Granny or whatever her name is fit the bill. The fact that Jinx would hunt for the green and black dressed villainess while she kept her true purpose hidden from the Teen Titans just made the hunt that that much more interesting to Jinx.

Shego moved around and watched the pink-haired girl as she tried to find the green and black ninja who silently watched Jinxes' every move.

Kim tried to have a heart to heart talk with Ron, "Ron, that's why you can't date villains. You can never tell if they are going to turn on you and break your heart."

"Sorry to disagree with you KP but any girl can do that not only villains. In fact when 'a nice girl' twists that knife, it hurt's worse because I'm not expecting it. Why do you think I hang out with you and Monique so often? It's safer, you're my best friends and I don't have any dating worries around you two."

"But Ron have you taken a close look at that Jinx person?"

Ron smiled in the dark, "Yes I have. In fact back in Drakken's lair we were literally nose-to-nose with each other and she has some pretty nice ta-tas."

"Eeewwwww! TMI! Ron when did you turn into such a…a….a…boy."

"I don' know it just sorta happened on its own."

In the subbasement, Jinx sat and leaned against a circular cement column, she was tired from her fruitless hunt for the black haired woman.

From a distance, Shego watched a dark shadowed figure watch Jinx throughout the hunt today. To tell the truth, if the whole thing had not been so ironic, Shego would have found it pointless and dull. It was obvious that Jinx wanted to see her for something and that the Teen Twerps were trying to get her to find Shego and company for them, the lazy bums!

Actually, all this had pulled Shego away from eavesdropping on Kim and Ron, where she had gotten some good blackmail material on the two that she could sell to embarrass the 'princess' but Jinx was too close for comfort and Jinx didn't know it but Shego had spotted a shadow that followed her. So Shego followed the shadow that was so intent on not being seen by Jinx that it never noticed the ninja/thief behind it.

Patience was not one of Shego's strong suits so after what she considered a long boring wait, Shego attacked the shadowy figure with the intention of taking it down quickly and quietly so that Jinx would still be unsuspecting.

The shadow had other ideas and sank into the floor with Shego in the air where it stood. With a muffled curse Shego landed on her right shoulder and rolled so that she faced back the way she came just as the shadow reemerged from the floor.

Jinx was neither deaf nor dumb; she heard Shego's roll and muttered curse but could only see vague forms in the gloom.

Jinx was no hero to charge blindly into a fight, in fact Jinx rated heroes just above lemmings for self-destructive behavior. No way was she going to put her one and only life on the line without a chance of a substantial reward. It didn't have to be a bank robbery, after she had sort of reformed, for the right price she'd be more than happy to rescue a poor little kitty cat out of a tree.

So with these ambivalent feelings, Jinx carefully crept towards the scuffle in the darkness.

"Ron! Hands!"

"Sorry, KP, I can't see anything in the dark."

"Ron, sit on them."

"What?"

"Your hands, Ron, your hands."

"Why?"

"Do it! I swear. When I turn my back for one moment he mutates from best friend to boy, and a boy always mutates into an octopus when around a girl."

"Kim."

"Oh man, what am I going to do?"

"Kimala."

"What!" the red head hissed.

"It's me, Ron. Your best friend since prek."

"I know Ron and you're still my best friend. But IF you want to stay my best friend you'll watch those hands of yours."

"Sorry KP it's dark and I can't see my hand in front of my face let alone…"

"Ron." Kim warned.

"Eeppp'"

"Jinx told me, ahem, after a slight reimbursement, that we need to find and capture Gizmo in order to send the intruders back where they came from. They are going to stay until we can find a way to send them back to where they belong.

Somewhere in Jump City, Gizmo sneezed.

The Teen Titans East with Starfire to replace the missing Aqualad started combing Jump City and its suburbs in their search for Gizmo.

Raven spotted Jinx's stealthy approach and faded away into the darkness. Shego stopped and glanced around, the pink-haired girl was slowly moving in her direction. Shego froze in position, knowing that the human eye was attracted to movement.

After a while Jinx walked over to the basement stairs as she said to herself. "I need a flashlight to look around here properly."

Shego watched her go and made planes of her own for a Midnight visit to Jinx while she was resting in her room, the green and black shadow silently moved off in that direction.

"So you understand why we're best friends but not dating?"

"Yeah, Kim, that would be too awkwierd for words. Ha. Ha He he he…."

"KP, I think theses are yours. That is unless Wade has finally given me something to use. I think I know what it is but we need to find the proper framework for this."

"Not now Ron I need to find all my clothes."

"Right, KP." And Ron turn away from his best friend to give her some much needed privacy while he worked on his new weapon that he thought was from Wade. The slingshot with double pockets for launching twice as many gas and smoke bombs as before, finally he could help Kim more than just being the distraction. Just think what he could do if he 'shot' two or more of those bonding bombs into the multiuniformed crowd around here.

Ron was brought out of his heroic daydreams by Kim's asking, "Ron, have you seen my bra?"

"Gaaaaa….. IS THAT WHAT THIS THING IS?"

Kim rolled her eyes as she took back the garment in question and thought. 'Is he ever going to grow up?'

The two teen heroes crawled out of their hiding place and checked to see if the coast was clear, it appeared to be so.

Robin had been in the Security Control Room for watch on watch, the others were busy or exhausted. Robin had pushed himself to his limit, although he would never admit it, even to himself.

Robin leapt from his seat as if propelled by one of Beastboy's whoopee cushions, "Cyborg, Beastboy a sensor has detected motion in the seventh level hallway, three floors down. Cy, you take the elevator, Beastboy, you take the south stairwell, and I'll take the north stairwell."

As the planned attack started, Cyborg was still waited patiently for the elevator to show; Beastboy ran down the south stairwell/fire escape only to crash into the red metal fire door on level seven, Robin jumped from landing to landing in the north stairwell/fire escape and pulled open the red metal red metal fire door.

At this time Robin was the only titan to enter the seventh level hall; he was crouched in a defensive position with his Bo staff extended.

Kim was in her defensive Kung Fu since but in a hallway like this that Bo staff could easily dominate the fight and the force generated could be dangerous in the hands of a seasoned practitioner of the martial arts and Robin had that reputation.

Kim glanced around and saw a familiar door, the janitor's closet door, "Ron! The Janitor's Closet I need…"

A confused look passed over Ron's face for a moment and the old grin was back. "Right KP, see ya later but not too much later 'k?"

'I forgot all about that that.' Kim held up one hand palm out.

Robin tilted his head and cocked one eyebrow above his mask.

"My best friend has issues with janitor's closets and…oh…never mind."

Robin stood there open mouthed as his auburn haired opponent trotted to the side and opened the door to the janitor's closet. "COM'on Ron I didn't mean for you to stay here……"

"Yes, you did but that was an accident……."

"Yes, I am so over Josh Mankey. That's not even last season, that was years ago……"

"RON, it's time you grew up……"

"No I'm not mad, a little disappointed but definitely not mad………………………….."

While Robin tapped one end of his Bo stick impatiently on the floor, Beastboy regained consciousness and staggered into the hallway behind Robin, and Cyborg waits back up on the tenth floor for the elevator to show up.

"Ahem" Robin cleared his throat, loudly.

"Impatient much?" Kim grabbed the closet clothes pole and reentered the hall, followed by her blond best friend with a goofy, bemused grin on his face. "Ron, go sit over by that wall and wipe off that lipstick from your face."

Ron shambled over to the wall opposite the janitor's closet and lead against it, after he slid down the wall Ron sat there like a puppet whose strings had been cut.

Robin smirked, "You know, I have a special someone also. She has long red hair with green eyes and a taste for the color purple." Robin knelt on one knee.

'He isn't, he wouldn't! Kim thought wildly as she jumped to what she thought was the obvious conclusion. 'He's going to hit on me!'

"Sorry, I can't, Ron needs me. We're all we have, after we get home maybe something more maybe not. The future is what we make of it."

Robin, for once was speechless, he had been thinking of another red head who was flying patrol even as they spoke. Someday he might even getup the courage to speak to her about it, or not, if his sense of duty overrode his feelings for Starfire.

Robin shook his head 'no' and slid his Bo stick over the floor to Kim. "It's not what you think. A clothes pole is too fragile and would break under the stress of combat. Take this I have a spare." Robin pulled a second metal rod from his belt at the small of his back. When he pushed a hidden button it extended to a Bo stick length.

It looked like this hade the makings of a one-on-one fight so Beastboy moved back and made him self comfortable.

The elevator finally arrived and Cyborg stepped on only to find that it had been programmed to go to the ground floor next. As the elevator slowly counted its way down towards the ground floor Cyborg was forced to endure the dreaded sounds of elevator music.

The two squared off at twelve feet apart and bowed as if they were in a dojo Robin dropped to a crouch with his Bo stick in reverse behind him, ready to perform a leg sweep eight or nine feet in front of him if Kim left an opening for him to attack. If she attacked his staff was in position to block high or low. Robin smiled to himself; this was going to be interesting.

Kim watched Robin's bojutsu stance carefully from what she could see he was no tyro, maybe as good as Shego but Kim hoped not. Just in case, she used ma-ai to judge the right distance for the best chance of victory. Kim knew that she had to time this just right. If she stayed on the defensive she would give the initiative to Robin and his long range attack in tight quarters. But a conventional attack might put Robin's pole in her face. Something she didn't want to think about.

However there was a cheer move that might work.

Kim backed up a few steps for a running start. She ran forward carrying her Bo stick in both hands horizontally across her body and leapt into a hand spring that carried Kim up and over Robin's attacking sweep with his Bo stick.

Robin looked up as Kim came out of her summersaults and came in for a landing, feet first.

'Not the face!' Robin groaned to himself as he backpedaled to get out of the way.

Beastboy saw the fight quickly moving towards him and morphed into a four hundred pound green gorilla.

None of the participants could exactly say what happened in the next few minuets.

Kim saw that she was going to miss Robin as he backed away so she shifted her Bo stick from horizontal to vertical so that she use her Bo stick to pole vault at Robin before he was ready for her next attack.

Ron continued to sit in the hall with a dopy grin on his face.

He slowly turned his head and stared wide-eyed into the hooded apparition that soundlessly moved next to him.

A blue robed figure slowly emerged from the wall next to Ron and said in a monotone. "So are you going to tell Jinx that she has no chance or will you be a coward and let her find out the hard way?"

"GAAA! A GHOST-GIRL! I MEAN A GIRL-GHOST! It was too much for Ron and he fainted.

Rufus scampered out of Ron's pocket and pulled up one eyelid. He looked from Ron to the hooded and cloaked person and back again. Rufus went back down to his pocket/home and brought a small white cloth. While Kim continued her fight, Rufus was fanning Ron's face with tiny towel in an effort to wake Ron up.

As Kim pole vaulted forward kicking Robin in the chest.

Robin's defensive tsuke-hazushi blocks with the Bo stick struck under Kim's jaw but not the throat where it could have killed her but they did knock her down and out.

Robin lost his Bo stick as Kim fell and stumbled back from her kick right into a green shaggy mound of fur. Like a domino the green gorilla lost his balance and started to fall back and right on cue the elevator doors separated with a DING so the green gorilla with Robin on top fell into the elevator car.

As the elevator slowed to a stop, Cyborg and Jinx were having an animated conversation about their favorite subject, junk food. In this case, pizza.

"I'm telling you Jinx Meat Lover's Pizza is the best, everything a man could want. That Supreme Pizza is just another way to sneak veggies in to ruin a perfectly good pizza."

The two turned to face the green mountain of fur as it came crashing in on them.

Without thinking about it Cyborg grabbed Jinx and turned to face the back wall. The elevator car shook as Beastboy in gorilla form slid into Cyborg who stood braced so that Jinx wasn't hurt.

"Um, come here often?"

"No, but do you want to go for pizzas later?"

"Sounds good to me."

"It's a date."

Jinx and Cyborg walked over and around the strewn bodies of the Bojutsu duel.

Continued

Bojutsu: The martial art of the long staff about a person's height in length

Tsuke-hazushi: Blocks that use a straight thrust

Ma-ai: The martial art of judging the right distance needed to ensure victory.