Heylin Dragon
By: Aubrie1234
"Sir?" Poke, poke, poke.
"Mmphgh!" Jack swatted away the thing that was trying to wake him up.
"Master Jack, sir, something's happened." Poke, poke, poke.
"Mmph!" Jack swatted the thing away again.
"Master Jack, don't make me resort to unpleasant measures." Jack slept on, happy to be left alone. There was a mechanical sigh, "I hope I don't get dismantled for this..." The Jackbot turned away and hovered over to the unused Wakebot, turning it on. Jack had made it a while back to help him get up at earlier times but had never used it. It looked like a small snake sitting upright with a clock on its belly, but once it was on, its eyes lit up, blinked, and looked around. It stared at Jack, then checked the time on its belly. It was 9:02 and the Wakebot proceeded to give an angry screech and jump on Jack's bed, thrashing about and waking up the teenage genius, not to mention thrashing so much that Jack got tossed in the floor.
"What the hell?! I thought you were turned off!" Jack, kneeling on the floor, pointed at the Wakebot accusingly after screaming in surprise. It hissed and pointed at the Jackbot with its tail, where Jack turned his glare to the robot.
"JB-23, why did you do that?! I was trying to get some sleep!"
"I'm sorry, sir, but something has happened that you need to see." This got Jack's attention.
"Don't tell me the monks broke into the cabinet again..." he groaned. JB-23 shook its head.
"No sir. It's something much," JB-23 scanned its vocabulary databank for an appropriate word, "weirder than that." Jack raised an eyebrow.
"Nothing's weirder than the monks stealing from the bad guys, but what the heck." Jack gave another glare to the Wakebot, "Be glad my parents are on another trip or you'd be dismantled by now." The Wakebot gave another hiss, "Why did I ever build you, anyway?" If it could have, the Wakebot would've shrugged. As it was, it gave another evil-sounding hiss that made Jack yelp and get to his feet, moving away from the vicious bot. In doing so, he put JB-23 between himself and the Wakebot, using the Jackbot as a shield.
"Remind me to permanently dismantle Wakebot later." Jack whispered.
"Dutifully noted, Master Jack." noted JB-23. With a parting screech from the Wakebot, Jack and JB-23 hightailed it out of there, heading down to the lab. In front of the door was a Jackbot, who saluted Jack as he came closer. After one too many villains (mainly Katnappé) came in through the door, he'd finally had one of his Jackbots guard it. Didn't actually stop the villains from getting in other ways (or the monks) but it made him feel safer. As it was, it moved out of his way to allow him to go in, and when he stepped onto the landing, he stopped in his tracks.
"That," he began weakly, "is one. Big. Egg."
"Yes sir." agreed JB-23, "When we powered up this morning, we found it sitting on your worktable and tried to analyze it, but our scanners shorted out soon after we did so. It seems to have some sort of electrical field around it, so we haven't touched it in fear of shorting out."
"Is it even alive?" Jack wondered as he stepped down the stairs to get closer to the giant egg. It was as big as one of his Jackbots and colored a light orange with black, purple, and red spots all over it.
"The electrical field prevented us from checking." JB-23 looked sheepish (or as much as a Jackbot could look sheepish), "You'll have to examine it yourself, sir."
"Great." Jack sighed, "Do we even have any medical tools?"
"Yes sir." Jack blinked as JB-23 hovered over to one of the various cabinets and opened it to reveal a stethoscope and various other medical supplies, "Your mother thought these might get you interested in being a doctor or something."
"Of course she would." Jack rolled his eyes, "Just hand me the stethoscope and the thermometer and I'll handle the rest." He turned to the giant egg and put his hands on it. It felt warm, so that meant it wasn't dead yet, right? He just hoped that no one decided to come 'knocking' while he had the egg. Sure, he didn't know how it got there or what it was, but he couldn't just give it up. If he could make money off whatever was inside, he'd love it like it was one of his own robots (with the exception of Wakebot).
"The thermometer?" asked JB-23, confused.
"I need to check its temperature and I don't have a proper way to do it right now." said the teenage genius. JB-23 didn't say anything more and handed to objects to Jack. First the albino boy checked for a heartbeat using the stethoscope and quickly found one, which didn't seem to be beating too fast or slow. He then checked the temperature with the thermometer around the middle of the egg and found it to be around 95 degrees. He turned to his Jackbot and asked, "Is 95 degrees a good temperature for an egg to hatch?" JB-23 zoomed through his database to check.
"I'm not sure, sir. It depends on the egg. But I believe it would be safe in the 92-100 range."
"Alright." Jack handed the instruments back to the Jackbot before taking a seat on a chair beside the worktable, "Any idea how it got here in the first place?"
"No sir." JB-23 shook its head, "The cameras were even checked, and it seems they shorted out for a small time last night before the egg appeared then fixed themselves."
"So someone might have interfered with the cameras for a short time to put the egg in here, but why? Who the hell wanted to give me this?" Jack gestured to the egg, accidentally hitting it and making it wobble. Before he could grab it, JB-23 did so and they both gave sighs of relief when the robot steadied it. Jack kept his hands to himself as he went on, "Don't they know that I'm the worst person to be considered a caretaker?"
"Perhaps that was the point." JB-23 reasoned. Jack gave the robot a look.
"For that, maybe I should appoint you as nanny. You don't seem to have shorted out after touching the egg and I have better things to do that to take care of an egg." Jack looked away, "And, like you said, I might just kill it anyway."
"Yes sir." JB-23 gave a bow, "I will do my best to make sure the egg hatches."
"Uh," Jack had taken a surprised look on his face as he pointed at the egg, "I think it's already doing that." JB-23 turned to see that Jack was right. Even though it was in the middle of a big, steady table, it was wobbling this way and that, ready to fall over if need be. Both jumped when they heard it begin to crack and Jack wondered what kind of luck he had to deserve this just as the egg suddenly began to glow brightly, there was another large crack, and then the light was gone. There was no trace of the egg, but in its place was a small creature that looked like a miniature narwhal. It was orange and had the same body structure, it had a single red, cone-shaped horn on its head, and big green eyes.
"Fu!" it squeaked, wiggling a little, "Fu!"
"Um, sir? What should I do?"
"Just- Just pick it up, JB-23." Jack didn't really know what to do, either, and very nearly fainted at what happened next. When JB-23 tried to pick up the small creature, it slipped from the robot's grip and began to float in the air, doing some sort of giggle. Giving a sigh, Jack stood up and waved JB-23 away, deciding to try and handle this himself, hoping that the creature would respond better to him that it had with the Jackbot. It squeaked in surprise when Jack got a gentle hold on it and wiggled, trying to get out of his grip. His gloves helped him keep a grip on the tiny monster, so it tried to jab at him with its horn, but Jack was surprised to find it soft and bendable, so it didn't hurt at all. He took it into his arms, trying to show the creature he meant no harm.
"Hey, it's okay." he murmured. In only a minute or two, he had fallen for the monster and he almost couldn't believe it. He was supposed to be an evil boy genius, damn it! The creature blinked, then made a grouchy face, puffed cheeks and all. Jack found it cute, and he hated that. So did the monster, apparently, as it tried to jab at him again with its horn.
"Fu! Fufufu!" it cried.
"Stop that!" Jack tried to hold the creature still.
"FU!"
"I'll take that as a 'no...'" Eventually he got the tiny thing under control and found it yawning in his arms, sleepy. He couldn't help but smile as it fell asleep.
"Master Jack?"
"Hmm?" Jack looked up to see JB-23 still hovering there, unsure of what to do. The albino sighed, "Oh great. I've got a baby animal to take care of now, don't I?"
"I suppose, sir."
"Well, don't just hover there! Try finding out what this thing is and what it eats!" Jack sat in his chair again, "And maybe get some formula. I don't know if it drinks milk or not, but it might be helpful."
"Yes sir." JB-23 saluted before going away. Jack glanced down at the creature again as it slept.
"You're a lot of trouble, you know that?" he whispered. There was no response. Shaking his head, the boy genius took a hand away to drag his toolbox closer and try to work on his newest project one-handed. He hoped nothing would go wrong.
It was just an hour later when the creature woke up again and demanded to be attended to, so Jack was once again glad his parents were gone for the time being as he climbed the stairs of his lair and headed towards the kitchen. There had been no success from JB-23 or the other Jackbots on what the creature was, so Jack only hoped that he wasn't about to feed the little guy some poison. On the kitchen table was a small spread of assorted things, such as meat, fruit, bread, and so on. Immediately the creature floated out of Jack's hands and attacked everything, especially the meat, gobbling it all up in seconds.
"You sure were a hungry little thing, weren't ya?" Jack commented as he watched the monster eat through everything it could get its mouth on.
"Fu!" it said, then went back to eating. That didn't last long as the creature began to glow and Jack (after putting on his goggles) watched in amazement as it grew and changed form. When the light was gone, the creature now looked like a serpent of some sort, like Nessie but without the long neck. It had four small flippers along its body, a gray-brown belly stripe that ran from its jaw to the end of the tail, and six spikes on its head. Four were tipped red while the top two were tipped purple and swiveled like ears. It still had large green eyes, but around them was something like eyeliner, making a slash mark over its eyes, and Jack felt like it sorta looked like him with the markings. It blinked, then began eating again, except faster this time.
"Thanks for the food!" it said suddenly with a male voice, raising his head from the buffet while a drumstick hung out of the side of his mouth, "You're nicer than any human I've met before."
"...What?" Jack didn't expect it to talk, "You can talk?!"
"Yes, I can." He blinked, "Oh, you don't know what's going on, right?"
"Not really..." The monster nodded.
"Uh, just let me finish and I'll tell you everything."
"Okay..." Jack took a seat as the creature finished eating.
"Uh, do you have a napkin?" he asked once finished, waving his front flippers.
"Sure, hold still." A Jackbot handed him a napkin and the albino carefully rubbed the mess away around the creature's mouth, "There."
"Thanks. So… What do you wanna know first?"
"What are you?"
"I'm a Digimon." His top spikes twitched, "I'm basically part of a race of digital monsters that come from computers. Specifically, I'm a Kyokyomon right now. Digimon can change form if they have enough energy or if they're in danger, so thanks for the snack."
"No problem." Jack said, "What were you before?"
"A Fufumon. As babies, we can't talk, y'know."
"Right." Jack blinked, "How am I taking this so well?" Kyokyomon shrugged, or as much as he could with flippers for hands.
"I don't know, you tell me. And uh, what's your name?"
"Jack. Jack Spicer." Kyokyomon smiled.
"Hi, Jack Jack Spicer." Jack snickered at that.
"No, it's just Jack. Spicer is my last name, you don't have to use it."
"Okay. Well, my name is Senshi. Thanks for helping me, Jack."
"No problem." Jack raised a hand, then hesitated, "Is it okay if I pet you?"
"Sure." Senshi lowered his head, and Jack rubbed it, finding the digimon to be scale-less and slightly fuzzy, completely opposite of what Jack had felt before, when the creature was slippery and soft.
"Any idea how you got here, then? You said you come from computers, so you must have come through mine, but how?"
"Uh..." Senshi thought back, "I don't know." He shook his head.
"Can you go back into the computer?"
"I don't know how."
"Alright." Jack took his hand away and rested it under his chin, trying to think. He soon snapped his fingers and said, "Hey, why don't you stay with me, then? I'll keep you safe and fed, you just might need to help me with some things. How does that sound?"
"Sure." Senshi nodded.
"Then let's go back to my lair. I still need to work on things." Jack stood up and moved to pick up Senshi, but the digimon dodged and floated into the air.
"It's okay, I can get there on my own. You lead the way."
"Okay..?" Jack did so and Senshi followed, his flippers flapping through the air and moving along at a decent pace. In fact, he was almost outpacing Jack, who pulled the digimon back by his tail to get to the lab first, but Senshi just grew in length and couldn't help but laugh at the look on Jack's face.
"When threatened, Kyokyomons can stretch themselves to almost nine times their length!"
"I bet you can't beat me in a race, then!"
"Hey!" Senshi frantically waved his flippers to catch up to the running Jack.
Just what have I gotten myself into? Jack thought to himself, And maybe there's a way to get Senshi to help me win the Shen Gong Wu back from those Xiaolin losers! So maybe this won't be so bad after all. I mean, he's keeping me from being lonely…
Why do I keep making chapters to stories like this while I have others I need to finish? *sigh* Anyway, I've actually been into Xiaolin Showdown for a long time and this is my first story for it, so I hope you guys like it. Any OOCness or things that don't fit, tell me and I'll fix it. Also, please read & review!
Notes:
1. Fufumon, Kyokyomon, and Ryudamon are actual digimon and but I couldn't find them or their digivolutions under the character options, so I tried to fit it in the best I could.
2. Wakebot is something I came up with to start the story and makes me laugh.
3. Senshi is Japanese for 'warrior' (as stated by Google Translate), but if it's wrong, tell me and I'll fix it.