[Location: China, Jack Spicer's Basement. Time: Tuesday 10:37 A.M.]
The beginning of this story starts in a small suburban house located on China.
"I'm Jack Spicer, Soon-to-be Ruler of the entire world! Mwahaha!" A rather loud and obnoxious voice echoed in a large laboratory like basement. The owner of the voice belonged to the one proclaiming himself to be Jack Spicer, self proclaimed evil genius, whose only real talent lies in making sophisticated robots… and nothing else.
No seriously, if you were to look into the dictionary, and find the word incompetent, you would see Jack Spicer used as an example. The even sadder part of this was that it was actually printed in over several dictionaries distributed across the world.
Still, despite literally being the absolute lowest of the evil food chain, Jack Spicer was a very tenacious boy. He was always one to bounce back in the competition no matter how many times he got crushed, and trust me, he got crushed a lot.
After chanting out his proud shout, Jack wore a metallic mask and got back to torch welding his new all terrain vehicle.
A floating robot came over to Jack; this one looked to be designed to look like a blond butler, but only its upper torso and head where shown. The torso of this said robot opened up and revealed a tray of soda and nachos. "Very, good sir, care for a beverage?"
Jack stopped his project to accept the nice cold beverage of Fizzy Pop. "Aah, nothing like liquefied carbon dioxide to quench an evil thirst. By the way, Yes-bot, how's that new Shen-Gong-Wu detector chip working?"
The Robot released a robotic arm and swung it into a thumbs-up motion, "Brilliant as always, sir Jake."
"Huh, looks like I forgot to synchronize the oral translator…" Jack rubbed his chin at the small mistake before dismissing it, "Bah, I'll have to work on that after I do the finishing touches on my new Omni-Trekker 1000!" Jack said as he beheld the full view of his new vehicle: it looked like a powerful, sleek black ferrari sports car, but there was far more to it than just a whistle-worthy piece of engine. Jack was able to hack into Her Majesty's Secret Service mainframe and download a copy blue print of one of the most advanced cars on the planet. Best of all, Jack had planned over two hundred proxy servers to prevent any high state tech and/or government technician from ever finding where the download originated from, plus he figured that London's government would think this to be the work of terrorist factions rather than a small time Boy Genius; giving Jack a clean get away.
Jack shed a few tears as he marveled at the creation of state of the art tech with his own modifications, "Sniff… I promised myself I wouldn't cry…" Jack softly whined as his voice cracked.
Suddenly, Yes-bot started beeping loudly, "Hey boss man, a new She-Go-Wow has revealed itself!"
"Really going to have to fix that soon… but this gives me a new chance to use my new sweet car! Yeha!" Jack slid across the hood of his car and quickly pointed a remote to the wall to open up the hangar doors, which revealed a giant ramp. He got into his car and started it up; the car came to life with a powerful roar that sent chills down Jack's skin. Jack stepped on the gas pedal hard. The sports car sped off in an instant then it crossed over to the ramp and rode off it. While mid-air, Jack quickly pressed a few buttons which made the car sprout wings on each sides and rockets on the back. The Nitro Boosters came to life and blasted Jack away into the sky. Jack gripped the controls tightly as he felt the sheer speed of his new ride; he then shouted, "OOH YEAH! TODAY'S THE DAY! LOOK OUT WORLD, JACK SPICER'S COMING! WOOHHOOO!"
Jack Of All Trades
Prologue: Kindred Spirits.
[Location: Approximately 100 miles over Hawaii (Pacific Ocean) Time: Monday 4:45 P.M.]
Jack activated another button in his car. A monitor appeared behind the radio and opened up to show Yes-bot still back at his base. Jack asked his robotic minion, "So remind me again where the Wu located?"
The robot nodded before splitting the screen in two, showing both the normal image and the image of a map with a blinking light. "Sure thing, Jake! The location of this She-Go-Wow is in Jump City."
"Jump City?!" Jack whined as he heard the familiar name. It was home of the legendary Teen Titans, young heroes around his age that have faced things almost twice as worse that what Jack has dealt with. Of course, Jack has also been through a lot of obstacles as well, and to say twice as worse is actually an overstatement. But the crucial and important detail is that these people can overcome those obstacles, where Jack runs away screaming like a little girl… again.
"Ugh! How the heck am I supposed to deal with those guys!?" Jack complained. He took a moment to set his flying car to Autopilot then into putting more effort into thinking about his current problem. Jack pressed another button and a duffel bag came out from the top and landed on the seat next to him. It was filled with most of the current Wu in his possession. "Let's see what I've got… hmm… Sun Chi Lantern? No… Only cheddar-head could make this work well… Ahh! The Emperor Scorpion! … I'll keep it in reserve against the Xiaolin-losers, but I still need to deal with those Titans… Yes! This should do it: The Shard of Lightning! I forgot I had this."
Jack attached the Emperor Scorpion to his left hand while tucking the Shard of Lightning away. He closed the duffel bag and faced the computer monitor again. "Hmm, you know, I feel like I'm on a roll today: why stop preparing just there? Since I'll arrive in Jump City in less than an hour, why not brush up on what they do and how they fight? Computer, Yes-bot, show me all public battle data on the Teen Titans… who I will now call the Thunder Twerps!"
"Right away, boss man!" The screen turned off and out came pop-ups of information about the Teen Titans. The car windshield turned black and opened up to reveal another large computer screen. It showed a video of the TT fighting against their enemy, Cinder Block. Jack reclined his chair and pressed another button, which allowed another soda to appear along with fries and a burger.
Jack took a chug of his drink before saying, "Yep, best car ever."
[Location: Jump City. Time: Monday, 7:58 P.M.]
"Welcome one and all to the first ever Nerd-Con! A gathering of popular fictional and science fictional writings, games, and etc. collected from all over the world! The first convention to be held within Jump City! We not only boast fictional items, but stuff that are the real deal: antiques, gear, and maybe some ancient mystical artifacts?! So come one come all down to the Jump City Convention Center near Walby 57th street!" A recorded announcement played near a convention center.
The night was young and the time was right. Most of the more… umm… "less seen" members of public society gathered in this convention
Among the artistically detailed stands, and colorful merchandise that would seem otherworldly, one…hmm…(this might be hard) rather big boned person took stride as he searched for anything that fit his tastes. This person was wearing some kind of rugged sci-fi look that was similar to the bounty hunters from the famous franchise of Clash of the Planets. His hair was a rather messy and grown out long, it was also colored orange, but whether it was dyed for cos-play or naturally colored like that only he would know.
This person's alias is Control Freak, a low level villain that isn't even seen as a threat, mostly because of his awkward appearance and somewhat random knowledge he would have on the fictional world. The sad part is that he is actually a rather competent villain; he once turned almost all of earth's population into mindless couch potatoes (though there are many points showing he didn't actually mean to do that.) and he has the power to summon fictional beings to do his bidding with his complicated remote control. But despite some of his works, people still seem to look down on him.
Control Freak was excited, he heard that there was going to be a new preview of the third expansion of Craftstars 2: Void of Armageddon {1}, where you would finally play the race of mystic aliens known as the Forgeans in the last battle to save their universe from being destroyed. He hurried to the theatre section of the convention and was glad to find that there was a free open seat left at the back.
He made his way over to the seat and jumped into it.
"Oww!" Control Freak jumped back out as he felt something sharp hurting his bum. He painfully removed something the object to see an odd pointed artifact. It was a silver cross with the planet earth embalmed in the center. The artistic designs on the edges looked almost Chinese combined with some mystic aesthetics. "Alright, which one of you foolish Dor'kashes, planted this in my seat!?" He cried out and pointed to several other people snickering at his previous embarrassment.
Someone wearing a costume of a Mayan warrior laughed at Control Freak, "Who are you callin a Dor'kash, you Verlion?"
"Oooo…" Several onlookers cooed. Apparently, that was an insult… somehow?
"You'll pay for that insult!" Control Freak dug into his pockets and took out an odd silver rod device, at a press of a button the rod shot up several lights to reveal a beam sword.
The insulter just yawned. "What is that? A photon blade? That's so 1999!" The Mayan cos-player took out a red box with a blue button on top. He pointed it towards the blade and it immediately short circuited. "Concentrated E.M.P. Pointer, don't think you're the only science geek here… Verlion!" Then everyone around him started laughing at CF.
Control Freak threw away his blade and shook his fist at the man. He was about to tackle the guy, until a loud explosion destroyed the wall.
Everyone, but Control Freak, started running away in panic away from the explosion. CF squinted his eyes to try and see who did this. Suddenly, two bright lights appeared and blinded him. He dropped the odd cross and covered his eyes. He then heard a powerful car engine running up to him. CF's instincts kicked in and he quickly rolled out of the way.
He took shelter behind a stand and poked his head out to see what had happened: there he saw a powerful looking sports car. It turned over and skidded to make its left side face the cross he dropped earlier. The door opened upward and out came a pale looking teen with red hair and wearing a dark cloak. "Cool! Craftstar 2! Wish I could've come here sooner, but…" The teen picked up the cross on the floor. "I got the She-Go-Wow!" Then he face-palmed and muttered something beneath his breath, "First thing when I get home is going to be synchronizing that oral translator…"
CF was frustrated at the person who made him duck for cover, and ran up to the pale teen. "Hey, you, what's your damage!? You could've killed me!"
"Back off Fatso! This Shen-Gong-Wu is mine!"
Control Freak blinked as he heard the name. "Wu? … Why does that sound familiar? … Hey aren't those the magic Shen-Gong-Wu artifacts, the ones that are all over the evil web pages of the Heylin Factor?"
The boy smiled smugly and threw his chest out. "Then you probably heard about me then!"
The big boned geek gave the red head a questioning look before saying, "… Chase Young?"
The red head seemed very peeved at that answer. He shouted out loud, losing whatever non-existent cool he had, "NO! I'm Jack Spicer, Evil boy genius and future ruler of the world!"
CF taught about it a bit more because he assumed he had heard that name somewhere before... then a realization hit him, "Hey, aren't you that whinny boy everyone else in the Heylin side thinks is a complete loser? OH! Hahaha! You're the guy who's afraid of being flushed down the toilet!" CF broke into a fit of laughter after finally recognizing the boy.
Jack was peeved and tried to defend his actions in that Jack Spicer whiny voice of his, "Hey! I was four! And that totally was uncool of those Xiaolin losers to upload that into the web…" Jack folded his arms and looked to CF, "So who are you supposed to be?"
CF stopped laughing and gave Jack a dark smirk. He jumped behind and did a weird pose before proclaiming, "I am the Teen Titan's # 1 Nemesis! King of darkness, Control Freak!"
Jack quickly made his hand form a t shape before saying, "Time out, you're an enemy of the titans?"
"Uh duh!" CF retorted.
"Then how come I've never seen you in any files with the Thunder Twerps?" Jack questioned.
"WHAT?!" CF screamed. "This happened again!? That is so not fair! I almost destroyed the world with one of my brilliant plans, and not even other people see me as a threat!?"
Jack seemed to empathize with that complaint, he patted CF's shoulder. "I hear that man, the times you actually don't screw up, and everybody glosses over it."
"I even fought against the Titans East, but that only seemed to boost rep for them!" CF whined as he stomped his foot.
Jack nodded in agreement, "Tell me about it, I once captured Chase Young! If it wasn't for a walking cheese ball, I would have ruled the world!"
"They keep looking down on us, but one of these days, we'll show them!" CF threw his fist to the air.
"The only thing you two will be shown are the walls of a prison cage!"
"KYAAAAHHH!" Jack yelped like a little girl in surprise, and jumped into CF's arms.
"Hey! Get off!" CF dropped Jack and looked behind him. CF became frozen stiff at where the voice came from.
Jack dusted himself off and complained again, "No fair, I wasn't ready—oh my gosh..."
At the wall where Jack crashed through, there were five powerful looking teenagers getting ready for a tussle.
One of them was a young and small teen that had completely green skin, hair, and pointy ears. He wore some kind of purple and black jumpsuit. He crouched on the debris as if he was a lion ready to pounce on his prey. Jack remembered this elf wannabe as Beast Boy, the shift-shaper that can turn into any animal.
A dark purple robed girl floated above the green elf person. Her robe covered everything about her and fluttered in the wind as she gave a rather blank stare to her enemies. Files described this woman to be Raven, one of the most powerful sorceresses under the Teen Titans
To the robed girl's right, there was a gorgeous red haired woman wearing some kind of purple get up, but her eyes and hands glowed green. She was the alien, Starfire, one of the most powerful members of the team.
Below the girl was a tall and muscular man. Clad in blue robotic parts all over his body, the man seemed ready to thrown down with some of the heaviest hitters. His name is Cyborg, the half human, half machine; easily one of the strongest members of the group.
Lastly, in the middle of all four, stood someone with a commanding aura, he wore green pants with a red and yellow vest combined with a black cape that was colored yellow in the inside. He wore a mask that prevented anyone from seeing his face. He was the legendary Boy Wonder, Robin.
The green boy looked over to the theatre section and motioned to his blue friend, "Hey, Cyborg, check it out! North Pole gaming company is releasing news on the third expansion of Craftstar 2!"
"Aww yea, can't wait to see the new characters they'll add!" Cyborg cheered.
"Beast Boy, Cyborg, we need to focus on these two." The raven haired leader scolded the two.
"It won't matter anyway, Robin, we're just up against two dorks." The Purple robed girl monotonously responded to their leader.
"HEY!" Both Jack and CF whined at the insult.
Starfire seemed to give a questioning look at the two villains. "Has the Control Freak learned to duplicate himself?"
"Hey, I look nothing like this guy!" Jack protested. "The Name's Jack Spicer! And I'm going to rule the world!"
"Oh dudes!" Beast boy claimed with a giant smile as he pointed to Jack. "That's the guy who's afraid of being flushed down a toilet!"
"That was when I was four!" Jack screamed, his face as red as his hair. However, Jack quickly changed the subject, "But you'll all regret that because I'm going to stop you all here!"
"Oh no, I'm shaking in my boots." Raven, Sorceress of Sarcasm, spoke with her famous apathy.
Jack smirked and took out an odd object; he held it to the sky and cried, "Shard of Lightning!" A bright flash enveloped the room. CF quickly shielded his eyes from the light. As the light died down, Control Freak opened his eyes again, but refused to believe the sight in front of him.
"Yo, what the heck!?"
"Robin, I fear he has blinded me!"
"Mrgphlf!"
"Dude, how'd he—"
"What happened!?"
The Teen Titans were literally beaten in an instant. All five of the Titans were constrained by some-kind of metal rope, one that had an odd emblem with an R on it. However, there was an odd clamp preventing Raven from speaking as well as a smaller clamp that circled over Starfire's eyes.
"Nice gear Robin," Jack taunted as he played with one of Robin's boomerangs. "You don't mind if I borrow you utility belt, do you? I didn't think so…" Jack finished his taunt by slinging Robin's belt over his shoulder.
"Dude! How'd you do that!?" Control Freak gushed.
"You should have paid more attention to the sights, Shen-Gong-Wu are powerful objects of power," Jack explained. "But we should probably go, since that won't hold them for long," Jack pressed on a button on his watch and both doors to his Ferrari opened upward. "Get in, but don't touch my soda!" Jack yelled.
The Titans were a powerful bunch, and they were not just going to keel over and let some random yahoo get a cheap victory over them, but the strength of the constraints around all of them was more than enough to slow them down for a few minutes, which was more than enough time for the two evil nerds to make their escape.
"Robin, what is this thing made off?!" Cyborg complained as he tried to force the metal constraints out.
"They're going to get away!" Robin screamed.
"HOLD, JACK SPICER, AND PREPARE YOURSELF FOR A MOST HUMILIATING DEFEAT!"
Just before Jack could enter back into his car, he froze at the sound of that familiar voice. "I can't believe I forgot about them…" he complained before looking back.
Four figures landed behind the Titans, one of them yelled, "Shimo Staff!" In two quick slashes, the constraints on all Titans were released.
"Nice one, Omi!"
"Just once, I'd like to have something easy! Is that too much to ask!?" Jack whined again for the umpteenth time.
To Jack's dismay, his regular adversaries had just appeared before him: Omi, the Xiaolin Dragon of Water, easily the most skilled fighter in the entire room. Omi was rather small, and his head was abnormally round and huge, but his fighting skills have been recognized as one of the best, even by the strongest of warriors on the side of evil.
Quickly following the young boy, was Raimundo, Shoku Warrior of the Wind, and leader of the group. Fearless and strong willed, this Brazilian has shown great command and planning that helped save the world several times over.
Next, was the always stylish Kimiko, Xiaolin Dragon of Fire, the only female of the group, yet whose element matches her fiery personality… and rage. Born in Tokyo Japan, she is a wiz with software products, once finding a way to combine the mystic Mind Reader Conch with her PDA to help her team.
Last, but certainly not least in any shape or form, Clay, Xiaolin Dragon of Earth: a cowboy from Texas who was built sturdy and strong. He has a heart of gold that's just as unbreakable as diamonds. Be careful when he starts using a lasso, he'll round you up with like one of his cows at his farm.
"Thanks for the help." Robin said as he was helped up by Raimundo.
The other leader simply dismissed it, "No problem, it's actually an honor to be working with the Teen Titans."
Robin nodded before looking back at the two who formerly captured them. He glared at Jack with all of his might and said only four words, "Give. My. Belt. Back."
Despite doing far better today than any moment in his evil career so far, Jack was simply horrified with Robin and did the only thing any sane man would do. "HHHAAAAHHHHH!" *Slam!* *Slam!*
Run away screaming like a little girl, or in this case; drive away in a super government spy tech filled car while screaming like a little girl.
Omi pointed out and yelled, "They are getting ahead!"
"It's getting away, Omi, but close enough!" Raimundo took something out of his pockets, lifted it to the sky and shouted, "Crouching Cougar!" In a bright flash of light a giant Cougar appeared. The four Xiaolin dragons quickly jumped on it.
"We have to catch Jack!" Kimiko screamed and the Cougar quickly chased after Jack's car.
Robin and the others were a bit dazed at what happened, but Robin shook his head and gave out the orders, "Titans follow them! Cyborg, you and I will chase from the Car!" At this, Beast Boy turned into a hawk and followed Starfire and Raven who flew after the pursuers.
"There ain't no way some gothic nerd's car is going to better than my car!" Cyborg yelled as he and Robin went back out of the convention.
[Location: Right Wing of the Jump City Convention Center (Nerd-Con) Time: Monday, 8:12 P.M.]
"Duude, sweet ride…" Control Freak admired as he quickly scanned the complexity of Jack's vehicle.
"Hey, hey! Don't touch anything! This thing is brand new!" Jack yelled at him. Jack then noticed that he was quickly reaching the other side of the convention center. He pressed a few buttons on his panel.
A robotic voice acknowledged the command, "Demolition missile armed."
The front of the car opened up to reveal a giant white missile that shot out and destroyed the wall in the distance. Jack smiled, shifted to the next gear, and stomped on the accelerator. The car gained another burst of speed and dashed into the cloud smoke.
On the outside of the center, it looked like a black blur came out of the smoke like a bullet. It quickly got into the road and continued to go at incredible speeds. Behind it, were several fast objects.
"Looks like Jack's new invention isn't as pathetic as his regular Jack-bots." Kimiko noted.
Raimundo was quick to act. "At this rate we'll lose him!" He turned to the three Titans above them. "You three take to the skies and follow them from there!"
"Are you certain?" Starfire asked.
Raimundo nodded, "We need a bird's eye view," He quickly turned to Omi and gave him a large artifact, "Omi, take the Longi Kite and help the others follow Jack. Kimiko, Clay, stay with the Cougar."
"What of you?" Omi asked as he prepared the Longi Kite on his back.
Raimundo took another object, or two, before responding, "I'm going to follow him directly! Fancy Feet!" Raimundo was able to slip his shoes into the large slippers and jumped off to cougar to run in amazing speeds after Jack.
Back in Jack's car, Jack was having a rather hard time trying to swerve over traffic. "Even with these navigation systems and easy controls, why are there so many cars tonight?" he complained.
"The odd thing is that usually there is no traffic this bad here." Control Freak commented.
Suddenly a beeping noise was heard and the radio of the car switched over to the screen. It showed two screens: One was some kind of radar that showed something was approaching fast behind them, and the other showed a back image of a speck slowly coming closer and closer to reveal a boy running at super human speeds.
"How is he doing that?!" Control Freak gaped.
"Shen-Gong-Wu give you pseudo superpowers," Jack pressed a few buttons and placed the car into Auto Pilot "Don't touch anything, or else we'll crash!" Jack screamed again at Control Freak before opening the roof of his car and standing through it.
Raimundo saw Jack face him, and saw it as an opportunity to grab their objective. He ran faster towards Jack before he could lose that valuable opportunity. However, Jack smiled as he pointed his arm towards Raimundo then he yelled out the words, "Emperor Scorpion! I command your Wu to stop working!"
Suddenly, Raimundo lost all speed; he tripped over from the sudden shift in his balance. Jack laughed triumphantly as he saw one of the banes of his existence fall so easily. However, it was short lived when a blue car came speeding after Raimundo, drifted to its right side, opened its door, caught Raimundo, then finally drifted back to chase after him.
"… That is so unfair!" Jack complained, slightly impressed at the cool driving maneuver. Then Jack's car suddenly swerved, so it could avoid debris and green bolts of energy from hitting it. Jack looked up and saw the fliers with Omi closing in on him. Jack gritted his teeth and went back into his car.
Raimundo, shook his head after the tumble and tried to remember what happened.
"You OK?"
Raimundo focused his sense to find himself at the back seat of a car; the person who asked if he was OK was Robin. "Whoa, I thought I was going to hit the concrete, how'd I end up here?"
"Just because the goth geek has a slightly cooler car, doesn't mean he's anywhere near as good as driving like me!" Cyborg boasted.
"Hey, Rai!"
Raimundo peeked to the side to see that Clay and Kimiko caught up with him. He then looked up and saw Omi with the other Titans. The two groups were now all together in their chase with Jack Spicer. Raimundo gave out an order, "Omi, freeze the road ahead of us!"
Omi nodded, he flew higher and took out one of his signature Wu, "Orb of Toornami, Ice!" a large frozen beam shot ahead of them and froze the road in front of Jack. In his car, Jack saw the frozen road and quickly pressed more buttons.
"Frozen terrain mode initiated." His car acknowledged. The tires of Jack's car suddenly pierced out small stubs spikes. This allowed Jack to drive on frozen road as if nothing had changed.
"Now that just ain't right!" Cyborg complained as now they were the ones going to froze road.
"Kimik—"
"Way ahead of you, Rai! Wudai Mars, Fire! Arrow Sparrow!" Kimiko shouted as she jumped and threw several birds towards the frozen road. It instantly melted and everyone harmlessly ran over puddles of water.
"You guys sure are versatile." Robin commented.
"Battling the forces of mystic evils for the balance of the world tends to be a great work out," Raimundo explained, but then he remembered something important. "Guys, be careful! Jack has the Emperor Scorpion!"
Jack poked his head out of his window, "Thanks for reminding me, Raimundo! Emperor Scorpion! I command all Wu under the Xiaolin Losers to de-activate!" At this command, the Crouching Cougar and the Longi Kite deactivated, causing Omi to fall and Kimiko with Clay to flail in the air before falling.
"Guys!" Raimundo called out.
"Titans, save them!" Robin ordered.
In a quick motion, Raven was able to grab Clay with her magic, Starfire was able to swoop in and save Kimko, while Beast Boy turned into an aerodactyl and caught Omi on his back. "Why thank you, my green, prehistoric friend." Omi said.
"OK, this is getting us nowhere; do you have anything that could help us capture them?" Robin asked Raimundo.
"The only things that come to mind are actually to powerful and may cause more damage to the city." Raimundo said as he considered all four of them transforming into their wudai forms.
"Anything less destructive?" Cyborg asked.
Raimundo shook his head, he wished that one of the Shen-Gong-Wu they brought was the Golden Tiger Claws or even the Treasure of the Blind Swordsman, but as it stood those two helpful objects were back at the temple. "We do have some things that might help us, but we left most of it at our crib."
Robin turned back outside. "Raven, can you lock on them?"
"Their moving too fast for me to aim properly, not to mention I'm also carrying this guy along." Raven replied.
"This isn't looking good." Robin said as he gritted his teeth.
"This is working a lot better than I thought!" Jack said as he looked again at his pursuers.
"Oh, I enjoy the look on their faces!" Control Freak agreed.
"But now it's time to end this once and for all!" Jack cried out as he pressed a few buttons again. Jack's car opened its back trunk and revealed some kind of hole. It shot out two quick spikes that quickly clamped into the wheels of Cyborg's Car. The blue car spun out of control, which forced all the fliers and others to save the ones in the uncontrollable vehicle.
Jack quickly pressed another button which reactivated the wings and Nitro Boosters of the car. The boosters activated and he flew off into the distant sky. Crying out loud as he left, "LATER LOSERS! AHAHAHA!"
The Titans and Xiaolin monks could only stare spitefully at the sky as the Jet Black Car blended into the night.
On one roof top, someone was watching the entire event transpire. "That was actually rather impressive for Jack Spicer. I do suppose if everyone has bad days, then Jack Spicer would be allowed to have good days. Treasure it for now, Jack, because it's going to end very soon."
[Location: Titan's Tower. Time: Monday, 8:57 P.M.]
"Thank you for your hospitality, and we are most sorry for the trouble we have caused." Omi bowed politely.
"It is no problem, small and round one. The Titans have shown me the same hospitality, as shall I show you," Starfire replied before putting a plate of something unidentifiable on the table. "Would you care for some Kodarian Worm Feet? They have gained much recent popularity."
Raven tried to warn her friend something, "Uh, Star—"
"I have never heard of such delicacy!" Omi quickly replied as he sat on the table.
Raimundo didn't like what Omi was doing, "Wait, Omi—"
But it was too late, "I thank you for the meal!" Omi said before… actually eating what Starfire gave him…
Everyone in the room, except Starfire, had to turn away from the disgusting sight.
"It's official, there's someone with a worse appetite than Beast Boy's." Raven claimed while ignoring the instant "Hey!" from BB.
"Ugh, little partner, how can you eat that stuff?" Clay as he tried to ignore the strange sounds he was hearing.
"It is most delicious! You should try it too, Clay!" Omi offered a hand scoop of the odd matter towards his friend.
Clay fought the urge to barf before blocking the offer with his hand. "… I-I'll pass, partner…"
Raimundo wanted to change the subject already, "Sorry again for our trouble messing with your city."
Robin nodded, "It's alright, if it wasn't for you guys, we wouldn't had even tried as hard. But why was he in the city?"
Raimundo quickly explained about the Shen-Gong-Wu to the Titans. With more basic knowledge, Robin asked, "So what Wu was revealed at the convention?"
"We actually didn't know," Kimiko explained. "When Dojo, our dragon and detector for the Shen-Gong-Wu, detected this one, all he did was point it on a map. He was having some kind of weird spasm about this Wu, so Master Fung told us to take the Silver Manta Ray and come here ourselves."
"Not entirely true, Kimiko," Omi commented as he finished his snack (thankfully) "I was able to hear Dojo briefly call it the Gaia Cross as he was spamming about."
"Spazing." Rai corrected.
"So, what does it do?" Robin asked thoughtfully.
[Location: China, Jack Spicer's Lab. Time: 12:13 P.M.]
Jack, with the help of his lab and Jack-bots, were constructing a brand new device: Control Freak's Reality Bending Control.
As Jack looked over the blue prints, he continued to disbelieve his own eyes. "How did you work around the radio and gamma radiations from the proto nuclear cells?"
Control Freak smirked before responding, "I used a trans-multi-distributer to isolate the radiation and transfer it over to the thermo batteries, allowing almost infinite energy the more I use it."
"That's brilliant," Jack admitted then he went back into helping out the software making. "I should almost be done… and there. It's done." Jack handed it over to Control Freak.
"Yes thanks! You have no idea how hard these things are to make!"
"Kind of do, remember? You just let me borrow those blue prints?"
"Well the first time was from scratch! How'd you even have enough money to pay for all of this gear?"
At that question, Jack's smile died down a bit. He scratched the back of his head and tried to make the next few words sound like no big deal, "My parents just give me my allowance and I just recycle some things in a scrap yard. No big deal." Jack dismissed as he turned his gaze at some random part of his ceiling.
Control Freak seemed to actually notice that change in Jack's behavior. He recognized that action as quickly dismissing a subject that someone wants to avoid, after all, he did that a lot when it came to people questioning his life style.
A few moments of awkward silence filled the air before CF changed the subject, "H-hey! What was that thing that I sat on anyway?"
Jack took out his duffel bag and took the odd cross out. "I actually don't know. Never seen this one before, maybe if Wuya was still here she would have told me what this does."
"Wuya?"
"Longer story than the Shen-Gong-Wu one. Well… technically they're the same, but I glossed over Wuya's parts." Jack explained.
"I could tell you what that is."
"AAH!" This time it was Control Freak's turn to scream like a little girl. He quickly jumped behind Jack and poked his head out at the creepy voice that suddenly came from behind him.
"C-Chase Young?!" Jack stuttered. Out of the shadows, Chase young stepped into the light. Well not exactly stepped, he sort of slid into the light without any movement in his legs, but regardless it scared the crap out of the two nerds, "N-nice to see you Chase, What brings you here?"
Chase Young is easily one the greatest villains in the Heylin side. Originally a noble Xiaolin Warrior, he was tricked into the dark side by Hannibal Roy Bean, and became a powerful half demonic, immortal lizard monster. His enigmatic and calm nature made him almost impossible to predict, even when defeated, as rare as those times were. He had turned the Xiaolin Dragon Omi against his closest friends and used his power to split the world into two. However, unknown to everyone, even Chase himself, Omi to this day believes that there is still a sliver of good in him that has never died.
But there was obviously no sign of this so called good side, especially to Jack as he saw Chase smile. Chase was acquainted with Jack in the loosest terms, and each time he was he brought only annoyance to this master of Evil. The very few times he had smiled towards Jack was when he intimidating or beating up Jack, usually both at the same time. "I simply here for your newest Shen-Gong-Wu, the Gaia Cross. Hand it over and you can enjoy your victory over the Titans and Xiaolin dragons without any unwanted… side effects…"
Jack laughed nervously before slowly extending his hand, "S-sure! But this was called the Gaia Cross, right?" To Jack's nervousness, he carelessly said the name of the Wu while still holding it tight, thus activating the mystical artifact.
Chase's eyes shot up, and showed pure rage… and… fear? "NO! You Fool!" Chase Young called out; the light of the Wu shined brightly and momentarily blinded Chase Young.
The Light died down and Chase Young quickly checked the area in front of him. From where Jack and the one hiding behind him stood, there were two new people standing back to back as if they were surrounded. One of which was a white ninja with a long white scarf; this ninja had an elemental thunder symbol embalmed on his chest. The one leaning on his back was a tall, muscular, and handsome young man with orange hair. He wore a red and purple trench coat, wore some kind of black vest, and had baggy brown pants with a lot of pockets. On the inside of his coat there were over several dozen books carried in pockets, almost giving this guy a walking library image.
"… W-where are we?" The taller man asked.
"Spicer, you fool…" Chase gritted, but he then noticed that the Gaia Cross was in the hands of the White Ninja this time. "You! Ninja, if you want none of your bones to be broken, then hand over that Shen-Gong-Wu!"
The two strangers faced Chase Young, but Chase actually seemed surprised as he took another look at the Ninja, or specifically his face: he looked exactly like Spicer, but with his hair swept back and wearing no dark or gothic make up. "… Spicer?" Chase questioned.
The Ninja spoke in a voice identical to Jack Spicer, "Spicer? Who's Spicer? ... But if you're after Wu…" The Ninja took a fighting stance and electricity flowed through his body as he strengthened his position.
Chase Young immediately tensed and also took a fighting stance on instinct. This troubled him, he looked exactly like Spicer, yet this ninja was putting off a powerful pressure that Chase had only felt against Omi, and other Martial experts like himself.
"I'm not letting you get it." The Ninja stated before charging right for Chase Young.
[Location: Unknown. Time: Unknown.]
Jack Spicer and Control Freak found themselves in a rather awkward position. There was a large group of people surrounding them, all of which were pointing weapons that the two had never seen before towards their heads.
"What the… Where did Jack Season, and Freedom Freak go!?"
"It's a trick, blast them!"
Everyone got their weapons ready and unleashed a wide variety of beams, lasers, attacks, all at the two.
"HHAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" The two of them screamed out loud as they hugged each other to prepare for inevitable doom.