Yay! This is chapter five for 'To Understand?' and I am so proud because I put a lot of work into it and I think it turned out pretty darn good!!
"BROTHERHOOD OF EVIL! MOVE OUT! GET THE TITANS!" Yells Mala. The villains rush into action excitedly.
It's time, Kid Flash. It's time for me to prove to you who I really am. Thinks the girl with glowing eyes and hands to match.
It's Tuesday in the best pizza place in Jump City and lucky enough, the original Titans Team have returned from their trip in Tokyo, apparently, they had some trouble there before their return.
"You two kissed? Isn't that just adorable!" Argent clasps her hands together and closes her eyes in attempt to imagine the scene, "aww! I wish I was there!" she adds with her cute British accent, Starfire who was sitting beside the pale girl starts to cringe with bright red on her cheeks.
"No!" Robin jumps and turns red at the cheeks too, "having Beast Boy there was bad enough!" the kid wonder's eyes glance at the green Titan across the circular table who of which was stuffing an entire pizza into his mouth and is attempting to swallow it in one go.
"Aww! Dude! Your still shy!" Beast Boy sniggers, and then tries an imitation of Argents accent, "isn't that just adorable!" Cyborg laughs from beside Beast Boy at his adorable impersonation.
"BB, you should keep to your own lingo."
"Shut it." Robin manages to growl between grinding teeth. Beast Boy and Cyborg laugh harder, Robin tries to ignore them.
"Ya know," Kid Flash starts while taking a slice of pizza and grins deviously at Speedy beside him, "one thing I realised from being here is how weird the names are in 'superhero world'."
"Really? I always thought that myself also!" Starfire agrees innocently, but only because she is from a different planet of course.
"For example, Madame Rouge means Madame Red in French, to me, that doesn't sound evil at all!" he exclaims.
"Here we go again," Speedy groans from his seat beside the hero dressed in yellow and red.
"And,"Kid Flash points at Argent sitting opposite to him across the table, "your name means Silver in French too! I looked it up!"
"Bravo Flash! It's a dear pity I already knew that," Argent replies while rolling her eyes, "but you should talk! Where I come from, flash is a word used to describe a thing that's neither lightning related nor fastest kid alive related, in fact, it's quite dirty." Argent smiles at Flash deviously.
"That's not funny nor my fault." he says in return, they all laugh at him nevertheless.
"It's amazing how it's never your fault too!" Speedy says with slight annoyance and nudges Flash in the shoulder, he was secretly indicating to the incident that occurred earlier after a supermarket robbery.
"Hey! I already told you that boy got dizzy all on his own! I didn't do anything!"
"Yeah yeah! That's what you said when he tried to get down from off your back! And when is say tried, I mean that's all he could do from being so dizzy!" Speedy accuses Kid Flash, everyone could tell what he said was true but Flash wasn't giving in that easily.
"NOO! He dared me! What else could I do!?"
"Uhhh… say NO like the responsible hero I know deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep down you are!" Speedy says and punches Flash in the shoulder, he pouts and goes into an 'in-a-huff' mode and say nothing.
The titans laugh at Speedy's words and Kid Flash's current state.
"So guys, not that your totally great for being here but when are you going to head home?" Raven asks in sarcasm from her seat in between Beast Boy and Argent, everyone picks up on her tone of voice. While the Titans from her team start to laugh again the other three took it jokingly as an insult and gasp dramatically.
"Gasp! Do my ears deceive me!? Did I hear the sad tone of sarcasm!?"
"I believe you did Miss Silver."
"Oh shut up Sir Flasher."
"Haha, good one, Silvy."
"It was my pleasure BB."
For the next hour the Titans exchanged conversations and silly stories where Robin turned red at the cheeks on numerous occasions but when it hit midnight, Robins communicator flashes as if it had a virus eating it at the same time as someone trying to get in contact.
"Wildebeast? Wildebeast! Can you hear me!? Wildebeast!"
"Robin? I'm ready, we're all ready, ready to fight."
"Good, thanks Star. We must be careful."
"I know, here's your communicator. Everyone is listening and ready for command."
"Thank you, TITANS GO! And good luck!"
Kid Flash sighs in between his steady breaths, he's currently patrolling around Jump City on Robins orders, "this is soo boring," he says quietly, he sighs further and his mind begins to wonder.
Superhero names really are something unusual, even Jinx's name doesn't fit her role. If she's able to control her powers then it can't be bad luck! But then again, she's a super villain… but that's only from her point of view though.
Something falls onto the ground in the distance, around the corner of a far apartment building to be exact. Flash just barely hears it but some sort of sixth sense tells him to go investigate instantly.
The speedster runs over to the source of the sound, he turns the corner at the side of the building and in front of him there is a path with a sign saying 'Public Playground' with and arrow beside it pointing at the path. It was surrounded with outgrown hedges.
That must be where I heard it, whatever it is. Kid Flash thinks as he reads the sign. Well, I am patrolling after all. And on that thought, Flash dashes down the path at his signature high speed. He stops running once he came to be in the centre of the Public Playground, it was full of little kids playing in the midday sun.
Well, it was sunny before a couple of dark clouds rolled in. The parents of the playing children begin to shoo them away from the playground and into some sort of shelter from the sudden downpour of rain.
How can it be raining? Cyborg said it would be sunny all day. Kid Flash thinks and spots a flash of lightening and a bang of thunder, that's when he figured it out. Oh! It must be Thunder and Lightening, Robin said they would heading in his direction but I didn't think they would make it here this quickly, unless, Flash's eyes open wide, his mouth falls open, unless they're being chased!
Kid Flash takes out his communicator but before he could even flip it open, it starts to beep and buzz and jumps out of his hand and lands on the ground. As the rain continues to fall, the hero watches his communicator explode.
Weird.
Another bolt of lightening flickers around Flash but this time it's different, it's not white with energy, it's pink.
"Kid Flash," a dark voice says in a matter-of-fact kind of way.
Kid Flash turns around to see who was talking and standing right behind him was the very person he hoped it would be, the same person he's been thinking about ever since he saw her last.
Jinx. Water was dripping from her ponytails, her clothes were soaked and yet her eyes nor hands were glowing but they're clenched in a fist instead. She sniggers but when Flash looked in her eyes, he could see something masking her emotions that were usually able to be seen in her bright pink eyes.
"Don't tell me your apart of this game, Jinx." Kid Flash asks her but she says nothing and just stands still, not even blinking her eyes. "Jinx? To have a discussion you need to talk."
"What if I don't want to say what I will say if I talk in this 'discussion'." she responds quickly, so quickly, any normal human wouldn't have even seen her lips move.
"It's not good to keep things bottled up inside, you know." Kid Flash makes a little smile and steps closer to Jinx, she steps back abruptly.
"Don't come closer Kid, I'm just barely in control. I'm not certain if that's a good thing or a bad thing." Jinx tells him, looking him straight in the eyes, but for some reason, Kid Flash got the feeling as if she was looking but not seeing.
"You're still confused?" Kid Flash exclaims, now he was beginning to lose it, "even after all this time, all this effort, all the support I gave you! I thought you would have figured yourself out!" oh no, I shouldn't said that.
"What!? You nothing about me! You have no idea what I'm going through! How could you have helped me? All you did was making me feel even more confused then I already was!" Jinx gasps and covers her mouth with her hand, "you weren't meant to hear that." she says from behind her hand so it came across all muffled.
"You weren't meant to hear what I said either."
They stare at each other through bright blue and pink eyes, trying to figure each other out more then they already had.
"But I am glad you said what you said, it made this a real discussion." Kid Flash says, "it's funny too."
"What!? How can this be funny!" She waves her hands about, taking them off her mouth in the process.
"It's funny how you think I don't understand you, Jinx" Flash smiles, "I understood you the moment I saw you in that museum, that's why I offered my help to you. I understood you enough that I didn't get how you're on the bad side, I wanted to show the potential I could see but I hard getting you to listen long enough to hear it, or see it yourself." he steps closer and this time, Jinx doesn't step back, she looks at the ground, too busy thinking about his words to notice.
"Do- do you actually believe that? All of that?" she mutters, still looking at the ground.
At this, Kid Flash laughs, "of course I do!" he says. Jinx looks up at him, he stops laughing at once.
"Is that why you did everything? Be nice to me? Take me in when I was injured? All just to help me understand my 'potential'?" Jinx asks, in her eyes Kid Flash could finally see a sea of different emotions.
"Well, half the reason." he answered simply and steps closer to Jinx, she stares at him curiously, "the other reason I think you already know."
Jinx cringes at this causing Kid Flash to laugh quietly. She changes the subject and remembers the reason she's here, "I'm have to beat you up, capture you and then bring you back to the Brotherhood Of Evil, you know."
"Really? I'm that valuable? And here I thought we were having a lovely discussion." he grins at her.
Jinx blows a raspberry and grins back, "Well, if this is such a lovely discussion, why don't we add some drama to spice it up a bit?" Kid Flash looks at her but before he could ask what she meant, Jinx's eyes start glowing and a flicker of pink punches Flash in the jaw so fast, he didn't react. Flash falls to the ground in result.
"Ouch." He moans while rubbing his jaw.
"Ouch? Oh Flash, you still have no idea what I can do."
The ending is on it's way people! One or two chapters to go and hopefully this story will be complete by the end of easter because when I go back to school, I have to get down to business. And it's not the nice sort of business either. *sigh*
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