Beast and Cyborg was eating pizza together on the couch, enjoying each other's company. Cyborg took a bite of his pizza, and hummed in delight.
"Mmm, mmm, mmm. Now this is some good pizza."
"-Pizza!" Beast cut him off. "Jinx, you owe me a root beer dude!"
"Aw man." Victor rolled his one good eye, but still kept his smile as he got up to go to the kitchen. Starfire came in, having heard Jinx's name being invoked.
"Friend Beast, does Jinx owe you the beer made of the roots?" She asked innocently, causing Garfield to chuckle at her misunderstanding of the soda, before correcting,
"Nah, Star. It's a game. When two people say the same thing at the same time, they yell Jinx."
"-Jinx!" Cyborg cut him off. "Ha, now you owe me a soda!"
"Drat. Help yourself to some pizza Starfire." Beast offered as he went to the kitchen. She took a slice while Cyborg continued explaining.
"Then the loser has to get them a root beer. Or any other soda. And there's other variations like the loser has to be silent, but we like getting root beer." Raven came in, sitting on the couch to read her book. "Hey Rave, we're playing Jinx. Want to join?"
"No."
"-No." He cut her off. "Ha, two for two, baby! Now you owe me a soda!" Raven simply snapped her fingers to conjure a root beer without getting up or taking her eyes of her book. Garfield came back with more soda.
"I too wish to play. May I?" Starfire spoke up.
"Of course."
"Joy!"
"-Joy! Booyah, three for three, hat trick!"
"Oh how clever, friend Cyborg! I shall get the rooted beer!" She went to the kitchen too.
"What's going on here?" Jinx came in, wondering what the commotion was about.
"We're playing Jinx, Jinx! Want to play?" The former villainess rolled her eyes.
"Ugh, this game? You have no idea how much it annoys me. My friends when they worked at the Hive would exploit and hold my name against me whenever they could. Especially Billy. It took blasting them with my hexes to make them stop. You seriously don't want the same. Count me out." She walked out of the living room.
"Yeah, me too. I can see where this going." Raven floated out of the room, leaving the four to have fun jinxing each other. As Jinx went to her mirror in her room, she fixed any imperfections with her pink, horseshoe shaped hair, and re-blushed her cheeks. It was then she noticed in her mirror a prank book sticking out of her bookshelf. Going to push it back in, Jinx then had an idea. A deeply mischievous idea which made her smile like the Grinch. Going to Raven's room, she knocked on the door, to which the sorceress opened the door.
"Hey Jinx. What's up?"
"Want to do something a little crazy?" The metahuman inquired. Raven lightly smiled.
"What do you have in mind?"
Sneaking into the living room, they saw that their friends were still playing Jinx, with over a dozen root beer bottles having already accumulated the past couple of minutes.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos." Raven whispered as she cursed her friends.
"Alright, I think that's enough Jinx. I'm full of soda." Nightwing burped after his stomach rumbled.
"-Soda!" Beast cut him off. "Get me a soda before you go off!"
"Ugh, fine." But what he would discover is that he started walking against his will towards the kitchen. "Wait, what's happening?" The others watched him stiffly walk to the kitchen, and come back with the last soda bottle. "I was compelled. Something compelled me."
"Hold on." Beast said. "Let's test this out. Cy, I'm going to say pie, and you jinx me, okay?"
"Okay."
"Pie!"
"-Pie! Jinx, now do a flip!"
"What, wh-aaahhh!" Garfield tried to do a back flip, but he instead landed on his face. "Ow!" Jinx and Raven were slightly giggling from the comedy of it all.
"Dude, our jinxes now have compulsory demands!" Victor realized.
"But what is causing of this now magical game of Jinx?" Starfire asked, to which Nightwing knew.
"Raven and Jinx, most likely, having fun at our expense. I'm going to have to talk to them later after this."
"-This! Ha, Jinx!" Beast pulled on Richard. He became exasperated.
"Beast, why would you jinx me?!"
"'Cause there's something I always wanted to play on you, fool." Garfield mischievously snickered. "Dance like that Flashdance girl!" With no beat to it, Richard ripped his outfit off to reveal a leotard, leg warmers and a headband.
"What the-?!"
"Boom Box, turn up the jam!" Cyborg called out. Boom Box ran in, and started playing 80's dance music to which Robin was being forced to dance to.
"This is so humiliating." Richard groaned while the others laughed, including Raven and Jinx by the wayside. Once Nightwing was finally done, Beast couldn't help but howl in laughter.
"Haha, that was hilarious, dude!"
"-Dude!" Nightwing cut him off with a vengeful smile. "Oh, you think it's all fun and games? Become your least favorite animal, and stay that way the whole day!" Instantly, Beast transformed into one of the most useless animals he knows: the blob fish, as he plopped onto the ground.
"Aw man!"
"Haha, Richard got you good, Grass Stain!" Victor laughed as he scooped up. "Hehe, that's just hilarious."
"-Hilarious! The jinx!" Starfire interrupted. "Now I get to jinx!"
"Girl, what?!"
"Aw snap! Star jinxed you, dude!" Garfield laughed. "This ought to be good!"
"I dare you to dress like the most embarrassing superhero ever." However, that's rather gave Cyborg an inspired idea.
"I'll be right back." He ran down the hall, confusing everyone. When he came back, everyone gawked at what Cyborg had on. "Hey man, I didn't know you were into Disco! Ha!" Cyborg was wearing his "Discowing" outfit. Everyone but Richard laughed at how outdated it looked, especially with how much it stretched over Cyborg's larger frame.
"How did you know I had that?! Take it off!"
"Let's just say I've seen an episode or two of The Masked Dancer."
"Ohoho, that is indeed quite funny, Cyborg!" Nightwing grumbled to Starfire finding his embarrassment funny. "Now who should I choose next?"
"-Next! Jinx, Star!" Victor cut her off. "Even if I took it in stride, I'm gonna get back at you for jinxing me first. Let's see how you like it that you have to dress as a fashionless villain!"
"Oh, if I must." Starfire flew off, using her super speed to find the most tacky outfit a villain has worn across the states within a minute. Several have come close, like one of Cheetah's outfits, the Rainbow Raider, The Flamingo, but when she found it, it was decided. The Tamaranean princess returned back swiftly. With a blush, she was dressed as the original Clock King. But not just any outfit, it was blue, yellow, and had clock faces all over her body. Especially her face, covering it while her hair spilled out of a hole she ripped open for it.
"Is this the tasteless enough?" She asked shyly. Beast was snickering.
"Oh man, I don't know what's funnier: Nightwing being a disco dancer, or Clock King's fashion sense."
"Well, if it helps Star, I don't think of you any less in that outfit." Richard told his girlfriend. She took off the clock face to show him his smile.
"Thank you, Nightwing. I love you."
"I love you too." The two briefly kissed. "So, are we done now? I think that's enough."
"-Enough. The jinx!" Starfire cheered, shocking Nightwing."
"My apologies, Richard, but I just have to make you do one thing I've always wanted, but didn't think you'd do it."
"Ugh, fine. What is it, Star?" He crossed his arms.
"I'd like you to sing a song from my favorite band of boys, Single Vector." Feeling the compulsion to sing, he sighed as he said,"
"Okay. Boom Box, put on Single Vector's top hit, Why You Are Beautiful." The musical machine started playing the 2012 pop song, to which Richard tried singing the song, only to sound bad at singing it. Everyone but Starfire cringed, and even though she loved the effort he was putting, she had to keep a straight face despite the fact his voice was ill suited for singing. When he finally finished, Nightwing asked while crossing his arms,
"Happy now?"
"It is... sufficient." The alien princess nodded. "It was a good attempt."
"-attempt, jinx!" Starfire gasped. "Let's see how you like doing something terribly. Try to make a logo for our team as iconic as this." He showed the iconic black and yellow T of their logo on his communicator. She sighed.
"Oh, very well." She went to her room, and sounds cutting, pasting, fire and power tools could be heard before she came out with a large piece of paper, showing a new logo with... too much. Rainbows, glitter, ribbons, kitties, and all of the titans hugging with toothy grins on their faces in front of a happy sun. Everyone was stunned, and Jinx even had to look away from how bright and girly it was.
"Is this the adequate?" She asked, feeling nervous.
"I mean..." Richard didn't want to hurt her feelings. "While I can't say it would make for a good logo, it can go above the elevator." She smiled.
"Thank you, Nightwing."
"Alright, I've had my fun with this cursed jinx game. Let's go find Raven and Jinx."
"-Jinx!" Jinx stepped out, laughing from how fun this game was. "I can't believe that after being sussed out, you four still made fools of yourselves for our enjoyment!"
"Yeah, that was amusingly dumb." Raven agreed.
"Now prepare for your last punishment, Victor."
"Oh no."
"Oh yes. I dare you to call up Brother Blood and prank call him." Cyborg grumbled as he used his hand to make a call. "Hey Brother Blood. How is running away from Jump City treating you?" The others listened with anticipation. "Well, I'm just wondering, is your refrigerator running? Because you better go get it!" Cyborg hung up before he could respond. "There, can we stop this game now?"
"Alright. Azarath Metrion Zinthos." She dispelled the curse. "Well, I'm going to go meditate." The sorceress left.
"Right. Let us never play that game again. If we never do, it'll be too soon to forget the humiliation. Jinx was right." The former villainess smirked.
"Thank you."
