*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 8 - Resurrection

Quakes POV

I woke up with the mother, no scratch that, the grandfather of all headaches. My head felt like it had gone 10 rounds in the ring against Doomsday. I could hear talking just out of my line of sight. I opened my eyes and was surprised that I was in the Titans infirmary. I could hear voices just out of my line of sight.

"Why didn't you take her in?"

"He needed help first."

"You should have let me help him. I would've gotten to him, dropped him off at the infirmary, and gotten to her before she could blink."

"We've been over this, I wouldn't have been able to set up the infirmary for him in time, only you would've. Besides we don't know if she had anything to do with what happened to him."

"Then you should have brought her in for questioning." I had to say it, they just set me up for it so perfectly.

"You two sound like an old married couple, you know that".

"QUAKE!" they both yelled out loud.

"Well, well. If it isn't Billy Batson, and Wally West. I knew it was you two nitwits by the sound of your voices. They're like nails scratching down a chalkboard."

"Dude you've been out cold for a full day, what happened", Billy asked.

The memories flashed back as fast as Wally could run. Jinx being kidnapped, the shock collar, the torture, and how Jinx helped me escape.

"Too much to explain in a short time, what are you even doing here anyway"?

"Tracy called us when you didn't show up after school for her like you always do. She knew something was wrong and called us up right away," Wally said.

"What would I do without a sister like her."

"Ahem" both of them said out loud.

"Or friends like you, I guess."

"Best friends," Billy chimed in, "what happened anyway, why was that girl with you?"

I couldn't tell them that she had gotten me kidnapped by Madame Rouge? "She...she helped me escape from that French bitch. She snuck in and got me out of there, the only reason Rouge knew I was free was because the alarm system was connected to the chains that bound me."

"Why did she even help you in the first place?" Wally asked. I didn't see any harm in telling the truth here.

"I saved her from being crushed by a falling building. I guess that was her way of repaying me." That's when it hit me like a ton of bricks, where was Jinx? I tried to get up off of the bed, but I was stopped by Billy and Wally.

"Hey, whoa Nicholas. You're still hurt from the torture. Don't try to move." Billy said to me.

"I don't care, I have to find her."

"Does she mean something to you Quake?" Wally asked me. The blood rushed to my cheeks when he said that. I didn't want anyone to know I had a crush on a villainess."You do don't you".

"Does it matter Flash, or are you going to tell Robin about this".

"Why would we?" Billy asked. I guess they didn't know that she was a villain, and I intended to keep it that way.

"Nevermind. I need to find her, and you won't stop me."

"Why do you want to find her?" Billy asked again.

"I have my reasons Shazam." I said as I pulled everything attached to me off. "I thank you for helping me, but I think Jump City will be fine with me protecting it until the Titans get back in 2 days."

"Today." Wally said.

"What?"

"The Titans get back today Quake." I was tortured by Madame Rouge for 24 straight hours? No wonder I collapsed, I must have been exhausted.

"Like I said, thanks for saving me. The Titans get back today apparently and I think we should do a quick patrol before they get here, just like old times. What do you say?"

They looked at me with a 'do you even need to ask' look on their faces. Shazam yelled his name out loud, Kid Flash changed into his costume that he kept in his ring in the blink of an eye, and I struck my fists together.

I was patrolling the city when I got a massive headache. At first I thought it was because of what had happened to me over the last few days, but the ones before never included a flash of sorts. I just passed it off as nothing. I flew a few more blocks to the east, when the flashing occurred again, this time with some kind of pulse coming from my body.

"Ok, this ain't funny. Why's everything flashing?" And this time another pulse came back to me, from the North. I decided it wouldn't hurt to see what caused it. I landed at the top of a roof about 2 stories up, when the pulse happened again. But this time the pulse connected with a person on the street, the person glowed a bit and the return pulse came back to me.

'No way. I've got some kind of Sonar ability. Never knew that about me.' It was Jinx that my Sonar ability was detecting. But that didn't shock me as much as what was going on below, and it fueled my rage.

Jinx POV

I was so scared when Shazam showed up behind me. I thought he was going to hurt me when he saw Quake on the ground. Instead he asked me what happened and I said nothing. I didn't know how to tell anybody what happened. I just told him that Quake was hurt and needed medical attention fast.

He said nothing, walked over to Quake, picked him up and said, "I'll get him the help he needs," and he flew off.

That was over 24 hours ago and I haven't heard anything since. Maybe he woke up and blamed me for everything, or maybe he hasn't woken up at all. He was tortured badly enough too. God, I blame myself for this. If I hadn't told Madame Rouge that I wanted to get rid of him after he foiled our first robbery attempt after the Titans left, he wouldn't be in this predicament now. He must hate me by now, and he should. I've given him no reason to trust me or even like me. It hurt letting him go, knowing I couldn't be there with him. I liked him a lot, Ok I loved him, but I knew he didn't feel the same about me.

I continued walking god knows where, I didn't know where I was walking and I didn't care. He didn't need me, he didn't need a jinx in his life, and I wasn't about to let there be one. Out of nowhere, a fist flew towards me and knocked me over. I was dazed for a second or two, and didn't know who had knocked me over until they started talking.

"You think you can just valk out of our hideout and not get away? Especially vith Quake. Now vhere is he?" It was Madame Rouge. She must have regained consciousness and tracked me down.

"I-I don't know. Shazam took him somewhere."

"Shazam vas here? And he did not take you in?" There was a little bit of suspicion in her voice. She probably wondered if I was a hero pretending to be a villain.

"H-he said he needed to get him to some infirmary fast. He said he'd be back for me but I didn't stick around to see what he wanted". That was only a partial lie. Shazam didn't say anything about being back for me, but she didn't need to know that.

"Then I have no use for you," she said and struck me with another blow. Knocking me several more feet back. She knew that I knew where Quake was, and it looked like she was going to beat it out of me.

Just when I thought that, a projectile comes flying in at a perfect 45 degree angle. The force of the impact caused a land wave heading in Madame Rouge's direction, forcefully knocking her back. I was absolutely astonished at what caused it, or rather who caused it.

It was Quake! He stood up out of the crater he had created and spoke out loud. "If you want to hurt her Rouge, you'll have to get through me first."

She looked at him and said, "I don't vant zee intern Quake. I vant zee boss," gesturing at him. They were going to fight, and I was caught in the middle of it.

All right Chapter 8 is up. I think I'll post a little teaser of a story I want to work on in the future.

Also congrats to the user for getting the right answer to the question in the last chapter, it was Shazam.

Hopefully I'll get Chapter 9 up soon. Spoiler - the title of it is Vengeance.

I always appreciate reviews. And if anyone is confused I'll answer any questions you have.