AN:/ Hello and welcome to this collection of drabbles, ficlets, one-shots, and short stories surrounding the idea that the Hoduku Mouse that fell in lava in the very episode it aired in before even being used, was in fact a fake. AND that Chase has been in possession of the real one for a VERY long time. Each chapter will not likely be in chronological order or will even make sense until Chase uses the Wu to set time straight and make everything more like the episodes that aired. Pairings in this series can and will be almost anything, including the not-so-popular but lovely ship Chamiko but excluding the apparently popular romantic ship ChaseOmi. A short chapter summary will be given every time. Sporadic updates to be expected.

Disclaimer: Don't own it, if I did I'd have my ship have more screentime and innuendos passed between them.

Chapter Summary: Chase confronts Dashi about what he believes is a very dangerous Shen Gong Wu, the Hoduku Mouse.

"Yes, Chase?" The tall man, with strange yellow skin and an obloid head, turns his head to face his friend, though his body is still turned in the direction he was walking.

Chase, tall and thin, with long black thick hair, and clad in soft blue robes, stops running when he reaches his friend. His face is twisted into an expression of extreme worry. "Dashi, my friend, this Wu you've made, the one that can fix any mistake, it's too powerful. You can't just hide it in the hopes no one will ever find it, you must destroy it. Who knows what will happen if it falls into the wrong hands."

Dashi grins at his friend and turns around to fully face him. "I know. That's why I've already hidden the real one without letting Dojo know. Now I'm going to find Dojo so we can hide this fake Hoduku Mouse." Chase's confusion is obvious and Dashi laughs at his confused expression. After a hearty laugh at his friend's expense, the creator of the Shen Gong Wu wipes away an imaginary tear and places his hands on his friend's shoulders.

"My friend. I'm entrusting the Hoduku Mouse to you. After you make what you may very well consider one of the biggest mistakes of your life, that's when you'll find where I've hid it. You hate the Shen Gong Wu, I know, that no matter who you become, that fact will stay the same. Which means that this very special Shen Gong Wu will always be safe with you. You and I will be the only ones to ever know the one I'll be hiding today is a fake. It's safest this way, my friend."

Chase immediately sees a flaw in this plan. "If you trust me with it, then why don't you just give it to me now? Why hide it and a fake?"

Dashi sighs and bows his head. "Because the mistake you'll make before you find where I've hidden it, is a necessary mistake according to what I've seen with the Sands of Time. And if you ever hold the real Hoduku Mouse before you make this mistake, then you'll be able to undo your mistake. You see, although the Mouse is very powerful, it can only take you back in time to another point where you have the Mouse.

"If it really could fix any mistake, then I would have used it by now to fix the mistake of creating it. But I can't do that, so I'll have to trust that my very honourable friend, Chase Young, will keep the Hoduku Mouse a well-guarded secret." Dashi gives Chase another grin, a slightly grimmer one, that Chase hesitantly returns, despite his misgivings.

Ten years later, after joining the Heylin side, casting Hannibal Roy Bean into the Ying Yang world, and witnessing Dashi's death, Chase was getting bored of living no where. So he began to reign control of certain lands that he then humorously named the Land of Nowhere. Within these lands of his, he finally found the perfect mountain to begin building his home.

After a few short hours of digging, he finds a box buried in the mountain. It has his name carved on the lid, and he thinks he knows exactly what he's about to find. Reaching into his armor, he pulls out a small silver key and inserts it to the obvious keyhole on the side.

He cracks open the chest and finds a note and a cloth-wrapped bundle. As he begins to read the note, he begins to laugh out of disbelief. Dashi had known for who knows how long that Chase would end up becoming Heylin. And he still thought the safest place for this Shen Gong Wu was with him. According to the note, Dashi knew a lot more than he had let on.

Chase,

I'm sorry I never told you what would happen, but I kept silent for the fate of the balance you would always go on about when we were younger and that I only learned to respect after seeing many different futures. Some were much worse than others, obviously. But here's one thing I can tell you about the future. 1500 years from now, when the Xiaolin Temple finally accepts it's first female Dragon-in-Training after Wuya, there will be a boy that will be able to return you to the Xiaolin side.

His death will not stop your return to the Xiaolin side, and in fact, you won't remain a Xiaolin monk for long after the boy manages the feat. Just 1500 years. He will change time, he will make it so that you never drank the Lao Mang Long soup. But Guan will drink it instead. He will take your place and you will take his, but with one major difference.

You, the greatest warrior of all time, will fall in love with someone on the Xiaolin side. And when the boy tries to change time once again, you will be faced with a choice. Remain a Xiaolin Warrior and have a love that will last forever. Or once again become a Heylin Warrior and the possessor of the Hoduku Mouse.

Another change between the two universes, will be the fact that Guan, under Hannibal's thumb, will never build a home on the earth you've upturned. He's always been a wanderer, so he will never find the Mouse and the Mouse will always be lost.

And that's about all I needed to tell you...oh yeah! One more thing. Remember the New Year's where you woke up short a couple feet of hair? Yeah, that was me.

-Dashi :D

P.S. In the future :D is something called an emoticon and that particular one represents someone (me) grinning at you. See, turn it sideways and it's a happy face.

Chase has a dangerous grin as his hands crumble the paper. He reaches into the box and slips the still wrapped Hoduku Mouse into his armor. "Dashi, you magnificent bastard. If I ever find out you faked your death, I'll make sure your real one is extra painful."

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