*Authors Note - I do not own any of the Teen Titans, DC characters or the Grand Theft Auto Cities. I do however own Quake, my Original Character.
Also - 'This is Thinking' - "This is Talking"

Chapter 5 - Suicide Mission

Quakes POV

I was on my way to the H.I.V.E. 5's headquarters a day after Jinx left my home. I wasn't going there to make their lives a living hell though, just to see a certain pink-haired sorceress who's been on my mind since she left me. I had also taken the liberty of making her a present, the exact same necklace that she tried to steal when I first encountered them. The reason for the necklace? It was her birthday after all. She might not want to see me today so I'll just leave it and go.

I entered the H.I.V.E. 5's HQ and it was surprisingly quiet...almost too quiet. I proceeded with caution towards their computer, looking for Jinx's room. I found it and proceeded to it, taking my time as I went, looking out for traps or an ambush. I reached the door to her room and was quite surprised at the lack of both security and bodies (live ones) in the place. The door opened to her room and I walked in, my gut telling me that something wasn't right. I looked around her room, which was completely trashed and came to the conclusion that a struggle took place. Her sketchbook thrown out, and a vase with the rose I gave her on the floor. I was about to leave when I noticed something on her bed. A H.I.V.E. communicator, which looked similar to the Titans, was on top of her covers. I debated whether to activate it when it flickered on, and I was shocked at who I saw. It was Madame Rouge of all people. I moved off to the side, hoping she didn't see me.

"I know you are there Quake, now pick up zis communicator right now." I grumbled to myself and picked up the communicator.

"What do you want Rouge?"

"Vat I vant is you Quake; beaten, broken, and helpless."

"Yeah, and I want to have one day where you crooks don't come out of whatever hole you crawl out of and terrorize my city so I can have a day off. We don't always get what we want Rouge."

"Oh, but I think that I may have a little leverage on you Quake". She moved her communicator to the side to show what she was talking about. Jinx was wrapped up in her other arm, still in her own pajamas, which confirms that a struggle took place. Jinx looked like she was barely conscious, but fortunately was breathing so I didn't panic any more than I already had on the inside. I decided to try to bluff Madame Rouge into letting her go.

"And what leverage is that Rouge? You have another villain in your grasp and you think that will get me into whatever trap that you've laid? You must be more stupid than you look lady, and if I must say so, you look really stupid." That seemed to ruffle her feathers a bit, but she quickly composed herself.

"I think not Quake, vhy else vould you be here if you did not care about her? You even have a rose in your hand non?" I looked down at my other hand which had both the present and a rose in it. I scowled a bit when I turned back to the communicator. "I thought so. On this communicator there are coordinates to vhere ve are. You vill come alone. If any other heroes come, Jinx vill die." she said as she tightened her arms grip on Jinx, showing me she was serious. "You have von hour. Do not make me vait."

As much as I hated to go at it alone, into an obvious trap, and without backup, I had to. Jinx was in danger, more than likely it was because she spent time with me in my house without trying to escape, which must have been suspicious to Rouge. The bottom line: she was in danger and it was all my fault. And as much as I hated that sadistic French bitch, I loved Jinx even more. I had to go and rescue her. I followed the map to the coordinates, which turned out to be an abandoned factory on the outskirts of town. The signal that was coming from the map led me inside it. More specifically a wall near the end of the factory. I was puzzled by this and expected an attack at any moment, when the wall opened up. I was apprehensive about going through it, but Jinx needed my help so I went in.

As I walked I could hear a faint voice at the end. "...Quake...help me..." as I heard this, I began to pick up the pace. The more I heard it the faster I moved, until I started flying in order to move faster. I saw a door at the end of the long hallway. I could hear Jinxes voice on the other side of it. I busted through the doors and walked in, not even looking for signs of a trap. I was too concerned with what was is front of me. A single light source from the ceiling showed me a helpless Jinx wrapped up in Madame Rouges arm, almost crushed to death. It looked like she was out cold, however. 'Good, now Jinx won't be able to see me murder this French bitch for what she's done to her.'

I spoke up to Rouge, "OK Rouge, you've got my attention, now let Jinx go she means nothing to you."

"Oh but she means so much to you non? I think I'll keep her like zis unless..."

"Unless what?" I asked her.

"Unless you vin of course." The rest of the room lit up, revealing a horde of villains and villainess. Some I didn't recognize, but I easily made out Mumbo Jumbo, Cinderblock, Overload, Plasmus, the other members of the H.I.V.E. 5, and Mad Mod. "If you vin against all of them, you and your precious Jinx may leave. But vhen you lose, it vill be your life." There was no choice to make.

"I accept your challenge Rouge."

"Good...now have at it everyone." and with that all the villains charged at me, and the battle began.

20 minutes later (I am not writing out every detail of the battle, just use your imagination).

I had managed to knock out about a third of the villains there, and I was starting to get tired. My body was telling me enough is enough, but my mind told me that the woman I loved was in danger and that I had to persevere. Suddenly Plasmus hit me with some of his toxic goo, and Overload hit me with an electrical attack. The pain was unbelievably intense. 'M-m-must e-e-e-end-d-dure i-i-it' I had trouble even thinking to myself. I didn't even notice Cinderblock until he was point-blank in front of me, hitting me and sending me into the opposite wall. All the villains took this as a opportunity to attack the wall above me. Causing several thousand pounds of debris to fall on top of me, completely covering me and crushing my left leg underneath it. My thoughts rushed in my head as I lay underneath the rubble, with my leg trapped, I couldn't turn around to lift the debris off of me. My thoughts sped through my mind even faster than I can fly. About how I ended up joining the Titans, stopping my first villain, my first solo mission, protecting my own city, my first major bust, being asked to watch over Jump City, seeing my little sister again after a year, and falling in love with the woman of my dreams, Jinx...Jinx?...JINX! What would those other villains do to her? Would they torture her? Make her suffer for being in the company of a hero? God, it was all my fault. I shouldn't have made her stay with me, I should have taken her to a hospital or...or something different. Then maybe she wouldn't be in danger. This was my fault, and I had to make it right, no matter the cost. There's one thing that can save me...and save her. It's something I've kept hidden from the Titans (hey it pays not telling everyone your secrets, especially with idiots like Poison Ivy and the Mad Hatter running around who can control minds). With all the damage I've taken today, the attack would almost completely drain me of energy. There was no choice, I had to do it to save Jinx. But first I had to clear the rubble.

I summoned up some energy and expelled it outwards, clearing the debris around me. It also had an unintended, and fortunate, side effect. About a sixth of the remaining villains had been knocked out by the force behind the debris expulsion. Meh, works for me. I needed to get some altitude, mostly because I didn't want anyone to know about my broken leg. I flew up about 3 feet into the air, right in the middle of the room, and concentrated as much energy as I could into the core of my body. When I reached as much as I could, holding some back just in case, I expelled the energy projection directly up. When it reached about 9 feet in the air it exploded into a dozen more, smaller spheres, in 12 different positions. These spheres then continued upwards until they reached a maximum height and started cascading downwards. The spheres then broke up into 6 more spheres, for a grand total of 72, each landing in different positions all over the battlefield. The attack finally knocked out every villain there, except for Madame Rouge and Jinx, leaving the battlefield with massive craters. I reached the ground and hunched over myself exhausted, but not exhausted enough to keep me from my senses.

I got back up as soon as I could, and called out to Rouge, "I've beaten all of them, now I expect to release Jinx as promised." I had expected her to drop Jinx and attack me, but what she did shocked me even more.

"Never let it be said I am not a voman of my vord." To my shock she lowered Jinx to the middle of the room, about 10 feet directly in front of me, she was unconscious (still) but unharmed. I was surprised at this, but I wasn't surprised at what happened after I took a few steps toward her. Rouge pulled out a remote and hit the button, causing a large object to fall. It was falling...RIGHT WHERE JINX WAS LAYING. I sped over to her as fast as I could, put my hands up and caught the object in midair.

The mass of this object was a lot more than anything I'd lifted before. "Heavy por vous, Quake? That object's mass is vun hundred and forty-four quintillion tons." ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR QUINTILLION TONS? Did I hear that right? That was more than 5 times my record, and my body knew it too. "This is zee heaviest object in zee world, and if memory serves, is five times your record non?" How did she know that? Why I asked myself that redundant question I have no idea. She must have tortured Jinx and she gave that up. God, what I must have put her through.

The mass of the object and the force of gravity soon started to overcome the upward force my hands were exerting. In English, the object started to collapse further towards the ground. I soon realized that this was it for me. I couldn't lift this, hell I barely lifted twenty-four and a half quintillion tons. The weight soon caused me to collapse onto my knees and was about to give up when I looked over to the other person who was under the object. Jinx...she looked so fragile, so helpless. I couldn't let Jinx die, she was the most important thing in the world to me. With that thought, I found strength I didn't even know I had. I managed to, somehow, lift the massive object, get up off of my knees into a standing position, lift it above my head, and threw it aside. The object landed with a loud THUD. I couldn't help but fall back onto my hands and knees. Panting like a dog in the summer sun and all my muscles screaming in pain. I had to get Jinx out of here now, before Rouge tried anything else. I stood up, albeit a bit woozy and slightly light-headed, and walked over to Jinx.

I picked her up, lifted her up to my face and said, "Hey Jinx, wake up...please wake up, your safe...please". As a tear fell from my face and landed on hers, her eyes opened up to reveal her beautiful cat-like eyes. "Hey sleepy, what do you say we make like hockey players and get the pu-" before I could finish my thought she did something unexpected.

She hugged me around my neck, crying into my shoulder. "You came for me, you really do care about me."

"Of course Jinx, I couldn't imagine my life without you."

"Oh don't worry, you won't have to imagine." and with that something metallic was attached to my neck. Before I could even react, Rouge pulled out a remote and pressed a button on it, sending a powerful electric shock throughout my body.

"That's five gigavolts of electricity coursing through you Quake. You should have known better than to trust a villain". After almost a minute of agonizing torture, she (thankfully) lifted her finger from the button. My body couldn't take much more, I collapsed onto my knees then fell forward onto my stomach.

The last thing I remember doing is looking at Jinx and uttering one word. "Why?", it came out as a whisper, then the entire world went black.

And what a twist at the end. Jinx was in on it the whole Time.

The next chapter is called The Truth and Reconciliation (yes I know that's a level from Halo: Combat Evolved).

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