The titans were in the living room, either watching the TV or doing their own thing when they saw a commercial come up.
"Jump City, something is coming up! And you want to know what it is?!" Two rad dudes with bad attitudes burst through the screaming words that popped up, themselves yelling,
"Skating-"
"-Contest!" Landing on the ground, they zoomed at the speed of light down the street. Three curvy women dressed in 80's clothes such as patterned yoga pants, arm and leg warmers and 80's style shades watched them pass by in amazement.
"Gnarly!"
"Totally Tubular!"
"So rad!" The two skaters jumped over each other like some sort of side by side leap frog before stopping their speed and breaking out in dance to say,
"There's a million dollar prize to anyone that can prove what it takes to skate to the extreme! You'll know where to sign up three days from now." The commercial exploded before ending and going to a dog food commercial.
"Whoa, we should totally sign up for that!" Cyborg jumped at the chance.
"Why? We're already millionaires to the point a single million is change to us." Jinx remarked.
"It's not about the money! It's about doing something I loved as a kid before joining football in high school! Sure, it wasn't as rad as the 80's but I was quite good and looked up upon in middle school.
"I guess it woulds be cool. I mean, I already talks like someone from the 80s dudes. Just need the get up and I'm alreadys in with the crowd." Garfield chuckled.
"But what if I am unable to keep up with the words of the 80's?" Starfire asked with concern. "I am already confused by your language of this decade. I would not know how to fit in with something you call dated on the out?"
"Don't worry Star. I'll help you with the lingo." Nightwing reassured her. "Going just for fun sounds like a good idea. Trying out another new thing together to build up our team bonding."
"I bet if you came along and dressed up right for this Jinx, you'd be fresh to the max." Cyborg complimented his girlfriend, whom didn't know how to respond accordingly.
"I don't know what that means, but if that was a compliment, then I guess I could go. My coolness is already at its max, so ramping it up to 11 ought to be good."
"So how about you Rave? You gettin' in on this too? Jinx and I won't pranks ya for a few weeks." Beast baited her. The half-demon looked up from her book.
"Why not?" She looked back down to it.
"Cool! Dress up montage!" Cyborg yelled as he pressed a button on his arm to turn the lights from normal to disco as each of the titans put something on or do something different with themselves. Richard spread his hair to the sides and put on purple pants with holes in them. Starfire put her hair in a ponytail with a scrunchie, Raven put on skates, Cyborg zipped up a neon bright jacket, Beast put up elbow and knee guards and Jinx put on a hat backwards with Jinx in 80's font on display of said hat.
"Alright titans. We look the part, but we also need to speak the part. Try to sound rad. Cyborg!"
"Oh man, we are just so rad!" He replied.
"Raven!"
"Um... if I catch any of you... lames... jacking up my style, I will mess you up?"
"Good. Just put some confidence in it. Beast!"
"Yo Rae Rae, don't harsh the whistle girl! We on the same vibes, yo!"
"Excellent! Now, before we shred the streets, we need to shred the training field." And considering that showing how learning how to learn to skate is slows and bogus, we ain't even doin' a montage! Just look it up yourselves if you want to be rad, and don't diss me if you've got a problem with that so take a chill pill, homies. After a few days of practicing, they were pretty decent. But upon skating there, who else was there to meet them in another contest but the Hive Five.
"Ugh, you guys again? Why you guys even here?" Jinx groaned. "And what happened Count Dorkula? He teleported out of here due to being chicken?"
"Hey, for your information Jinx, we've been expelled." The child prodigy scolded her, surprising the former villainess.
"What?"
"When you guys apparently became so good as to be in the Justice League, Brother Blood was like 'nope!', and got the heck out of Jump City. He even fired us because he's had a new rising star group that became the new Hive Five. Kyd Wykked was the only one not expelled because despite his personality and low aptitude, his teleportation was still considered the best out of all of us so he still got to be a student. So we've been slumming in the Southwest part of the city, hiding from the likes of you." Gizmo spat at her feet, which the witch did not appreciate.
"Oh, that would explain why we haven't fought you guys for months." Jinx realized, though her eyes were still narrowed with annoyance.
"Yeah, but when we heard about the million dollar prize, we just had to come! We've been scrounging on whatever we could find!" Billy replied.
"And we're trying not to just take it by force. Look, we have..." Mammoth showed her his skates, but they appeared to be haphazardly put together and looked sloppy. "... uh, something of skates. As good as Gizmo is, he can't do everything without consistent money."
"Hey, you dissing my skills?!" The 9 year old told off the giant metahuman.
"But really, we were planning on playing fair and square! Honest!" See-More swore, his smiling face being all sweaty. Jinx gave them an intense contemplative stare before she went to her friends.
"Let's go somewhere else in this part. I need to say something with you guys." Going to a more private area, Cyborg asked,
"So what's on your mind Jinx?"
"This may sound crazy, but I'm thinking if they win honestly they should get the million."
"But aren'ts they criminals? How can we trusts them that they be speaking the truth?" Beast inquired.
"Look, despite that we're on opposite sides of the law, I still miss them as friends. Except that creep See-More. We're here just to have fun anyway. Let them keep the money if they win. But, only if they beat us fair and square. No cheating or using their powers."
"Well, they do seems to be on the low in their lives." Garfield observed since their uniforms appeared to have been unwashed and Gizmo doesn't have any kind of his Hive funded technology on him. "Alrights, I can go with it."
"Me too." Cyborg and Starfire agreed.
"I don't know. They could be pulling another trick on us." Nightwing remained skeptical. Raven nodded.
"Me too. I can still sense hidden hostility and foulness in their souls."
"Come on, you guys forgave me, right? Despite that I was in the Hive?" Jinx pointed out.
"And while you guys didn't know at first, I was a thief before becoming a hero. And when you guys found out, you didn't shun me." Beast mentioned. "I think they deserves a shot." Seeing the two had a point, the two remaining titans nodded.
"Okay." Heading back to the former Hive members, Jinx said,
"Alright, so here's the deal. We'll take your word and we'll compete against each other to see who wins the million dollars. If you can beat us the whole way with no cheating, we'll let you have the reward with no fuss."
"Deal." Gizmo said as the two former members shook hands.
Round 1: speed. Everyone started from the top of Filbert Street. Nightwing, Beast and Jinx with either proper form or just being aerodynamic by being thin and lean, were able to get into top spots. Cyborg tried to use his mass to get ahead, but when he hit a small hole in the ground large enough for a wheel to fall in, the metallic titan crashed into the ground with a yelp, leaving an indent in the shape of his body. Starfire meanwhile had trouble trying to maintain balance at such high speeds and wobbled side to side while flailing her arms around, desperate for balance. At one point she was going to even careen into a car until she used her flight to avoid possible injury. However, this disqualified the alien princess for this round as a whistle blew, and the female titan floated towards up the hill glumly. See-More and Billy Numerous with their team-work were able to score lots of points. Gizmo tried to maintain his balance, but due to lack of body mass compared to everyone else, the wind was nearly enough to knock him over while others kept bumping into the 9 year old, which eventually happened as he fell over. And if Cyborg had a problem with his heavy body, Mammoth was even worse as he struggled to keep balance on such a steep hill, and eventually crashed into a truck.
Next up was acrobatics, needing to dodge water balloons thrown at them. And again, Nightwing Jinx and Beast were able to evade the incoming projectiles. The other titans weren't as lucky as Cyborg was too huge and the two girls were too inexperienced to dodge without also feeling like they'll crash, so they're dunked. Garfield gave a wolf whistle towards Raven with her top being wet and showing the outlines of a bra underneath, only to get a slap in the face from a black energy hand at the noise. The other titans gave him a disapproving look.
"She my hot girl, yo! I couldn't help it!" The green shapeshifter tried to defend, but the sharp slap did leave him tearing up from the pain. All the Hive Five members except Mammoth got through, due to him being too big again. And by this point, those who didn't get high enough scores failed to qualify. Cyborg, Starfire, Raven and Mammoth were disqualified from the competition.
The next race is a race where the competitors have to go through an obstacle course. All the obstacles have flags, and for each mastered obstacle does the competitor earn a flag. The obstacles all are different number of point's worth. The competitor can decide which and how often they wants to do an obstacle, but has to earn a certain number of points and flags to get to the last race. The harder an obstacle, the more points does someone get, but the competitor only gains one flag per obstacle. Does the competitor do the obstacle again do they earn points, but not a new flag. That prevents the competitors from only doing the hard courses, because they can't earn enough flags when they only do the hard obstacles repeatedly. Everyone but Gizmo advanced, due to his small stature preventing him from getting more points.
By now, it was the final race. The Demon's Tongue. A race for only the most bodacious and dangerous roller skaters could attempt. Of the competitors, Jinx was one of two females among a group of males of Nightwing, Billy, See-More, Beast, a couple of citizens by the names of Randy and Chip and Sandy, a rad single mother while her three children cheered from the audience.
"Man, you ready to eat pavement, loser titans!" See-more trash talked.
"Hmph, don't forget. We're here for fun." Jinx flipped her hair. "The only reason I'm not beating you air-heads up is because I pity the three of you and want you to not be slumming it in the slums."
"Wait, which one of us don't you pity?" The one eyed villain inquired, only for the pink haired witch to scoff and roll her eyes.
"Isn't it obvious?"
"No."
"Jinx's saying she doesn't pity you, man!" Billy answered.
"Way to figure it out geniuses. You've always been heinous, See-more."
"Dude, you just got seriously burned!" The multiplying villain responded. See-more simply shook his head, trying to not let her words get to him.
"Ready, set... race!" The announcer blared out as they all went down the Demon's tongue. A series of padded hurdles were up ahead, and they either slid over or jumped over, but Chip was the first to fall as he tripped and crashed into the pads. Taking a sharp right to either roll down the stairs or grind on the rails next to it, Beast struggled to keep up since he wasn't used to this level of complex skating, and fell off with a cry of fright, taking Randy with him as they tumbled down the stairs. It helped though that he turned into a bear and wrapped himself around Randy so that he took the brunt of the forces. For the remaining three, Billy and Richard were up ahead of Jinx. She unfortunately was distracted by See-More.
"Come on Jinx, why are you so cold to me?!"
"Because you're a pervert who only oogled at me, you one eyed weirdo! And I knew when you used X-Ray vision!"
"I thought we were close friends when we were teammates?!"
"As if! What gave you that idea?!"
"I don't know! I just thought we could eventually have a thing together!" This repulsed
"Ugh, you make me want to ralph! I'm with Cyborg, so get it into your thick skull I don't like you, and I never have! Compared to him, you're so lame!" While they were distracted bickering, See-More accidentally skated over a rock and his right wheels became busted.
"Ah, Jinx! Help!" He reached out to the titan metahuman whom was surprised by his predicament.
"Take my hand!" Reaching out for it, he almost grasped the girl's hands when she retracted back, her saying, "Psych!", before blowing a raspberry. See-more could only watch in devastation as he fell off the course and crashed into foam stalagmites.
"Girl, you have some real bad 'tude!" Billy shook his head which glistened with sweat. "Though to be honest, he did have a problem with girls!"
"Damn right he did! Finally!" The witch cackled. "It's about time he got what he deserved!" However, while she was reveling in taking her abhorrent admirer down several pegs so much, she didn't notice when the ground briefly switched into a patch of fake grass, so she tumbled down into it while Nightwing, Billy and Sandy managed to push ahead. Getting up while dazed, the titan was still grinning as she chuckled in pain. "Heh, worth it. Go ahead and win it boys!" She called out to the two. Billy, Sandy and Richard were reaching the last leg of the Demon's Tongue. One was a simple jump while the other had timed cannons of fire. Seeing his path to victory, the titan leader went and shrugged past Billy to jump over the fires and do a gnarly pose, which allowed him to reach the finish line first. The titans cheered as the group picked him up, whom was laughing with joy in his victory. Billy stopped to be with Gizmo and Mammoth, whom shook hands and patted him on the back. Starfire hugged Richard.
"I knew you would win."
"Thanks Star. I love you."
"I love you too." She then kissed him on the lips, which he recuperated, the crowd cheering as well for the couple. Jinx was helped down from the Tongue with Cyborg's assistance.
"Forth place. That ain't bad." Victor said with a proud smile.
"Yeah, may not be gold, but there was certainly a golden moment I got from it." The former villainess replied as she saw a weeping See-More being loaded into an ambulance. Even with the foam, he apparently broke his right leg from the fall, crying out 'why?' repeatedly. "Because you suck, loser!" She answered just before he was sent away to a hospital. "Oh man, you have no idea how long I've wanted to tear him down like that. That was more satisfying than this competition!" As she giggled like a madwoman, Cyborg nervously nudged her towards the water and lemonade.
"Alright Jinx, let's just take a drink and calm down." Proceeding to the prizes, the mother won a life time supply of free delivered food. Billy won an apartment and Nightwing won the million. Once handed the check, he handed the top prize to Gizmo.
"Well, you earned it. No cheating. I'm impressed."
"In all fairness, we wouldn't have won against you guys anyway even with cheating." The boy prodigy scoffed. "With four to six, we don't stand a chance against you Justice Titans now."
"Well, keep that in mind if you plan on commiting crime again. I'm going to enjoy some pizza now." Going back to his friends, that left the remaining former Hive members alone.
"So... now what?" Mammoth questioned. Thinking about it, Gizmo thought of something.
"We'll figure that out later. I have an idea for right now.
At their former favorite Pizza Place, the Pizza Corner, the titans were having a celebratory lunch, congratulating each other's skills and achievements or comforting those who didn't feel they did good enough in the competition when Jinx saw her former teammates enter the establishment as well.
"Guys? What are you doing here?" The three looked anxious, with Gizmo asking,
"Is it cool if we ate with you guys? All that skating made us hungry."
"Yeah, I'm famished." Mammoth complained. Looking at each other, the titans gained smiles on each of their faces and nodded.
"Sure. Let's find a bigger table." And so after four years of a heroic and evil rivalry, the Teen Titans and Hive finally found a sense of civility, and Jinx has regained her two closest friends before joining the Teen Titans.
A/N: Aww, they're finally friends. Now Operation Tim Man is sort of justified. I won't feature them often, but they'll sometimes be useful. Sorry, I've been busy with school for a while.