#accepting any healthy affection towards jinx with open arms

[d0j1d0j]

i fucking manifested this random little girl who follows jinx around like a puppy and who will give her all the love she needs and deserves

[rivaltierno]

Power Failure [Chapter 2]

A mishap during a fight with Katarou results in the team getting their powers swapped. Now, in an attempt to get their proper powers back, they have to get Katarou to cooperate with them, all while dealing with new abilities they don’t know how to use - and two teammates currently out of commission due to that. A retelling of Teen Titans Go! Issue #24 with Honorary Titans.

Written for Honorary Titan Fan Week 2020, Day 4: “With the Honoraries”

Word Count: 1,703

When Hot Spot first came to, he thought he was dying. He pushed his fingers onto his palm to feel the heat that was supposed to be there, but it wasn’t. He was cold. A cold that would have made him shiver if his body wasn’t so stiff. It was like something was constricting him, to a point where he had to stop everything else and just focus on breathing properly.

Once that was under control, he forced his arm up so he could look at himself, trying to ignore how stiff his body was. His skin was still a healthy shade, so at least he wasn't really dying. He then further ignored the aches in his body by pushing himself upwards. 

He wanted to see how his teammates were doing, if they were going through what he was. Instead what he saw was flames - and the person with no idea how to control them.

The only thing Jericho felt at that moment was panic. Not pain, for the fire didn’t burn jem, and not fear, since je was too disoriented to be afraid. Just unadulterated panic.

Je flung jems arms around in a futile attempt to de-power jemself. Instead, je accidentally sent off a fire blast, the recoil sending jem backwards.

Hot Spot managed to duck out of the way of the blast. That changed the aching in his body into pain, as if it was now trying to restrict him from moving too quickly. He continue to ignore that and looked behind him to make sure nothing was on fire where the blast had actually landed. A tree behind him had been a little singed, but that was it.

He hoped that meant Jericho wasn’t so panicked je couldn’t be reasoned into calming down.

“Listen to me Jericho, it’s going to be all right,” he started, slowly crawling towards his teammate. Between his own body fighting against him and the heat from the fire now actually affecting him, he didn’t make it very far. “Just, breathe for a minute and you’ll be able to power down.”

Jericho wanted to take his advice, but couldn’t convince jemself to. When je laid still, it just reminded jem that it felt like jems blood was literally boiling and that je just had to move to stop it. So instead je jerked upwards and tried to reach out to Hot Spot for help. But the sudden movement of jems arm was too much, and je accidentally sent off another fire blast.

Hot Spot couldn’t dodge this blast in time. However, before he knew what was going on, his new powers washed over him, protecting him with a thick layer of crystal.

This is what finally got Jericho to stop for a moment - evidentially guilt was a stronger feeling than panic. As je was looking over Hot Spot for any injuries, it finally clicked in jems mind that something must have happened to make everyone’s powers swap. Je, now consciously aware of the fact that je wasn’t going to burn to death, could pause for a moment and power down. Satisfied in seeing Hot Spot unharmed from jems attack, je hoped that just thinking about ‘turning off’ the fire would work.

And je could. It was like the fire just melted off of him, letting jems skin hit the colder air. Unfortunately it was only a temporary reprieve, as Jericho’s body temperature never dropped from a fever and je got a whole new host of symptoms from the powers. Heavy sweating, dizziness, and a sudden nauseous feeling had jem doubling over.

Hot Spot wasn’t too far behind jem. He couldn’t move but was still conscious, and quickly reasoned that Kole’s powers must work similarly to his. Her’s did, and he was free from the crystallization before he had even finished thinking about it.

He could move now, but didn’t want to. He was feeling like he did when he first woke up: cold, stiff, and having trouble breathing. He focused on that last problem first, forcing his breath steady again. At least now he knew why he felt like something was constricting his movement.

The two of them stayed like that for a little bit, just trying to adapt to the symptoms their new powers brought. But Jericho never cooled down and Hot Spot couldn't get himself to warm up.

Hot Spot didn’t like to wallow in his own misery - too dangerous - so instead he tried to lighten the mood. “Well, this sucks.”

Jericho looked up and gave him a weak smile. Je certainly agreed with that.

The conversation didn’t continue past that, however, as the rest of their team had finally found them.

“Good to see you two alive,” Jinx said, crouching down to help Jericho up. She then scrunched up her face. “You look terrible. Red is not your color.”

Jericho hadn’t even realized that whatever had swapped their powers had changed their uniforms, too, but looking down je realized she was right. The usual purple and gold of jems clothing had been replaced by red and even more black. Je then realized that Jinx’s uniform had taken over those missing colors.

Once je was back on jems feet, je used jems limited energy to starting signing. “How are you?”

Jinx shrugged. “My eyes hurt a little, but I have eye drops for that if it gets bad. For real though, you look awful. Sweating that much can’t be healthy.”

Herald, who was helping Hot Spot up to his feet, was subtler with their comments. “Clearly this is doing somethin’ to you. Can you walk?”

“Maybe,” Hot Spot answered, accepting Herald’s offer to lean on their shoulder. “Haven’t tried yet. You doing well?”

“Seems like it. Jinx’s powers haven’t done much to me.”

“We should head back to the tower before Katarou wakes up,” Jinx started. “I think I know how to reverse all this.”

“I think he’s going to be out for a while,” Kole answered, she and Gnarrk joining the group and completing the team. “He didn’t move once while we carried him over here.”

To prove it, Gnarrk shook the man he was carrying on his back, who didn’t react at all.

“So let’s get going then!” Kole seemed to be the only one actively enjoying her new abilities. “When we get there, Gnarrk and I can ‘keep an eye’ on Katarou.” She kicked the air a couple of times to prove it.

Jinx pinched the bridge of her nose, feeling too rushed to share in her enthusiasm. “Great, take us back.”

With that request, Herald, very reluctantly, unhooked his horn from his belt and offered it out to Kole.

This stopped her excitement. In the euphoria of having abilities that actually allowed her to move around during battles, she forgot what Herald’s primary powers actually were. She, also somewhat reluctantly, accepted the horn. “Right. Guess that’s me now.” She twirled it around to get a better look at it, randomly clicking on its keys. “So, I just think about where I want to go and blow in it?”

“You have to buzz your lips, not just blow air,” Herald corrected. They then launched into the simplified version of the technical rules they had been forced to memorize. “Blowin’ air won’t do anything because then you won’t get the necessary vibrations to make the horn work. Click one of the keys to stay within this dimension. And make sure to keep the portal smaller than yourself, it’s against regulations to make your portals too large when it’s just used for self-transportation.” Herald felt their face heat up as they explained it all; they hated how explaining how the horn worked made it sound so boring.

Kole was unfazed by the embarrassment in their voice. “Buzz and keep it small, got it.” Without any other preparation, she put the horn to her lips, pushed down the first key, and played. But instead of a fanfare summoning a portal before her eyes, a noise fizzled out of the horn with nothing to show for it.  She scoffed in frustration. “It didn't work!”  

Herald was going to offer some more advice, but Kole cut them off before they got the chance.

“I can figure this out, hold on.” She figured that, maybe, she wasn’t taking it seriously enough. She stomped down on the ground in a power stance, psychologically preparing herself for something awesome. She repeated the steps from before, and this time, they actually worked.

Unfortunately, the opening of the portal had a ripple effect - literally. Vibrations shook Kole’s body into a twitching motion and spots littered her vision. She stumbled backwards.

Gnarrk scrambled forward and caught her with one hand.

Just as quickly as the symptoms started, however, they faded away. Kole easily regained control of body and began rubbing her eyes. She stayed leaned into Gnarrk’s hold more out of convenience than need. “What was that?”

Herald gave her a sympathetic look. “Vibrations.” They went over to examine the portal, temporarily forgetting that they were taking Hot Spot along with them. “In good news, you got it right. Bit small, maybe.”

“So we’re going to have to crawl through it?” Jinx complained, almost whining. She was not thrilled about the prospect of dragging Jericho through a portal.

Jericho noted the annoyance in her voice and tried to straighten jemself out, to prove that je would be able to drag jems own body through it. But even that little movement was too much for jem in jems current state and je quickly leaned on her again.

Hot Spot had the same idea, but a completely different motivation. He knew that Herald would have no issue pulling him through the portal, but he didn’t like to rely on others unless it was absolutely necessary.

“I can crawl.” He dropped down to the ground and started making his way through the portal. His body was still stiff, so it was like dragging himself through mud, but at least he had become numb to the aching feeling. Numb was how he’d describe how he was feeling overall.

Herald quickly followed him to make sure he wasn’t straining himself too much.