Well this had been one nightmare of a field trip. Not that she didn't mind going on a wild goose chase or anything. But really, yesterday had been bizarre, that simple. First that chance fight with the Boy Blunder, which was freakish on all levels; they'd beaten him. Too easy. Plus he'd acted like he didn't know them, he'd asked Princess Sparkle-pants Starfire who they were. They were the Hive. You don't just not know who the Hive are, especially not after all the fights they'd been through. And then last night, at the school, she'd learned from Raven and Starfire that Robin was not all that he seemed, that he was actually another Robin, from another universe, now that was juicy. It took a lot of dark magic to do something like that, a lot of it. All she had to do was find it, preferably before those Titans got a hold of it and shut it down. With that much dark magic, well, she could make a name for herself and finally be recognized by the worst of the worst, she just had to find it.

Unfortunately, finding it hadn't been easy. Just a simple magic scan showed her that dark magic had been sparking up all over the city, and at random too. It only took her a couple hours of running about to realize that she was looking at it all wrong. What she should have been doing was heading for the center of the magic instances; when all taken into account and stamped out onto a map it was pretty easy to see that the 'random' spots of dark magic were in fact, not random. They formed a perfect circle, radiating around one creepy old building in the Jump City slums. Which was where she was headed now.

Jinx grinned wickedly as she stood at the base of the building; a boarded up tenant building, abandoned from Jump City's grander days. The place seeped dark energy. Too much to make any sense... she'd been expecting some magic artifact that some idiot might of accidentally activated, artifacts don't let off this much magic. Not on their own. No, she'd never felt anything so powerful in all her life. Maybe I should leave... Jinx thought, nervously gulping as her cats eyes picked up the wave upon wave of magic emanating from the building. To any normal eye it would just look like an old dump of a slum house, to Jinx's eyes though... I should get back to the Hive... this was crazy... what was i thinking... A particularly strong wave emanated, knocking her backwards; she landed on her feet gracefully but with fear. Yea, i should get out of here... who needs all that dark magic anyways... No. She shook her head, reminding herself. I want to be seen with the worst of the worst and in order to do that I need that magic. I can't run from opportunity every time it knocks. And this time opportunity has been most kind. Taking a deep breath she began up the steps of the building, and upon reaching the door, considered knocking, but instead chose to force the door open with a magical burst.

The inside of the place wasn't much better than the outside, all ruined furniture, fading wallpaper and the rank scent of decay. There wasn't a soul to be seen and it was hard to imagine anyone ever living here either. Tensely she made her way up the rickety old stairs towards the source of the magic. Every nerve in her body, both magical and non-magical told her to turn around and run; whatever the source of magic was, it was too powerful, too horrible for her to conceive. Once she was at the top of the stairs she heard voices, life. So there was someone here! Some sort of magician perhaps?

"Do you think this is a game Klarion?" A slick as slime voice asked from behind a door to her left. Jinx paused, she recognized that voice... but who was it?
"What? Disappointed that I took your toys away from you? Are you gonna cry you big baby?" A decidedly scratchy, boyish voice retorted to the unknown speaker. Shortly after that was a cry of pain. What was going on behind that door?! Jinx paused, back up against the wall directly adjacent to it. Do I go in? What do I do?
"Really now Klarion, I don't know why you keep on insisting that you've won this game, when I still hold two aces," That voice again. Who was it? I should know this! She thought, creeping closer to the door so that she could hear better. Suddenly she heard a slight crunch sound, what? Looking down she saw the broken remains of some sort of a wire. A signaling device! oh no!
"And one of them has just arrived." The door opened, and slowly, Jinx looked up, she knew then where she'd heard that voice. It belonged to a dead man; Slade.

"Hello Jinx, I hope I haven't kept you waiting too long," Slade said, picking her up by the collar of her dress and dragging her into the room. Jinx struggled as best she could against his grip, but it was useless.
"Let me go!" She shouted, about to send off a blast of pink energy at a stack of nearby boxes, when Slade clasped a collar around her neck.
"I'm afraid that your abilities won't work too well with that piece of jewelry on my dear," Slade said, casually dumping her on the floor. Jinx grabbed at the collar, only to be shocked.
"Aaaah!" She cried out loud, "What is this? What do you want?" She demanded, trying to act tough.
"What? Don't you like it? That's a Belle Reve inhibitor collar, it renders your abilities useless. Not that you'd want to use them in here, that would certainly make things interesting," Slade explained, casually typing away at a computer keyboard and glancing up at a set of screens, no windows, portals. Portals? What the heck is going on here?
"What are you talking about? What's Belle Reve?" Jinx questioned, getting up. She looked around at her surroundings; they weren't all that different from the rest of the building, but Slade had made a few upgrades. for one thing, there were large flat screen tvs/computers all along the walls, a large, high-backed arm chair with an ugly as sin cat sitting in it, oh and some kid chained to the back wall.
"Nothing of importance to you, no, I have a very special task for you Jinx." Slade said, turning to look at her with his one eye. "Klarion, you know what I mean to do don't you?" Slade then said, turning to look at the boy chained to the wall. The goth boy chained to the wall, his name was Klarion..?
"It's all going to blow up in your face!" The boy apparently named Klarion snapped, struggling against his chains.
"Please stop fighting against your bindings or else I'll have to raise the shock level again. Honestly, to think that Doctor Fate said that chaos couldn't be contained... perhaps not by order, but by chaos itself." Slade said with a tut-tutting sound, shaking his head. Chaos? Doctor Fate? What was Slade talking about? How can I get out of here? Jinx glanced about desperately; there were no windows, and the door was bolted shut... there was only the... no, that would be crazy.
"Well, since he won't explain, I suppose I'll have to." Slade said, casually pushing a button on his keyboard that sent some sort of purple lightning up Klarion's chains. "Agh!" The pointy-haired boy glared up at Slade through wicked eyes that made Jinx's stomach turn. Who- no, what was he? He was the source of the dark magic. One individual held that much magic and somehow Slade was playing with him like a ragdoll.
"You see Jinx, it's recently come into my knowledge that there are other worlds out there, world's like this one, but a little different," Slade explained slickly, opening up some complicated looking file on his computer that was all green vector lines and complicated looking math stuff. "Naturally, I want what I can see. And so when this little Lord of Chaos stumbled into our world I decided to, how should I put it? Greet opportunity like a friend."
"Where do I come into this?" Jinx asked nervously, glancing back at the pale-skinned.. lord of chaos? I thought that those were a myth!
"I can't be the king of two worlds Jinx," Slade stated as though it were obvious. "I can only rule one,"
"So...?" Jinx asked, suddenly afraid of the answer.
"So I need a little luck, bad luck specifically. You see Jinx, all of these portals are quite unstable and poor Klarion over there is doing his very best to keep those portals open because the moment they close, the two worlds become one."
Jinx's heart stopped in her chest. No. No, no, no, no, no, no... She hated her powers. Hated them! They only ever hurt those she cared about... sure she'd mostly mastered them, but just the same; she put bad luck on others. Her very birth had... ugh!
"You'd have to take the collar off for that," Jinx said observationally.
"Yes, yes I would," Slade said pushing a button on his keyboard. With a click the lock came undone and the collar clattered to the floor. Jinx didn't even wait a second. Raising a hand she blasted the tv screen directly above Slade, sending it flying down towards his head, and with her other hand she zapped the chains holding the Lord of Chaos, Klarion, captive.
"Run!" She shouted as Slade got to his feet, firing some sort of taser in her general direction. Hastily, she ran for the only exit: the portal. She had no idea where it lead, but it was her only way out.

Authors Note:
HOLY UNEXPECTED CHANGE IN PERSPECTIVE BATMAN
Yup, Jinx is in the mix- one of Slades main cards :3

THE WORST IS ALMOST HERE.
WILL OUR HEROES BE ABLE TO PREVENT THE COLLAPSE OF WORLDS IN TIME?
WILL TEEKL BE OK?
WILL SLADE EVER BE STOPPED?

TUNE IN NEXT TIME, SAME BATSITE, SAME BATAUTHOR.
(and check out the webcomic at DA by the batartist of the same name :3)