This little story plot has been rattling in my head for some time now, and seeing as I have the entire day to myself I though what the hey. So here it is!
Summary if you please…
A little battle goes too far and Jack gets blasted with the Reo Reverso, Omi wants to know why Jack suddenly ran and refused to show himself, why is he so afraid of being seen?
Secrets revealed:
"Jack Spicer come back with that wu!" Clay bellowed as Jack pelted across the jungle with the new Shen-gong-wu in his hands. This was Jack's new tactic called the 'grab and run' seeing as every time he stood and fought he got pasted by the Xiaolin Dragons so this tactic stood a higher chance of succeeding as everyone agreed Jack was better at running.
"Legs don't fail me now!" Jack cried as he ran, the jungle was too dense to use his heli-bot so he was improvising. Jack screeched to a halt when Omi dropped from above in front of him holding out the Reo Reverso which looked like a twisted bow with a diamond sticking out of it.
"Hand over the wu or…"
"Or what? You'll turn me into an enema?" Jack demanded "Or a monkey? For all you know that would turn me into a brutal giant savage caveman, which I think would be a step backwards if you want to stop me!" Jack grinned, Omi stared at him and then at the Reo Reverso uncertain.
I do so love confusing that little Twinkie! Jack thought as he chuckled, he stopped when Omi just smiled and then pointed the Reo Reverso at Jack once more making him stop.
"I'll have it on the lowest setting then!" he smiled.
"That thing has a setting?" Jack exclaimed.
"Reo Reverso!" Omi cried as the glowing black magic lanced forward and blasted Jack head on, he went flying back as the magic crackled over him.
"Uurgh!" Jack groaned he looked up at his hand to see it was still human. "Hah!" he cried "I'm still human he rolled over to get up but as he did he looked at a puddle that he had landed in.
"Oh no!" he muttered and looked as he saw Omi and the other crash through the jungle to get the Shen-gong-wu, thinking fast Jack grabbed the wu and pulled his jacket over his head.
"Hand over the wu Spicer!" Raimundo cried but stopped when he saw Jack flying as fast as he could away.
"He will not escape us, he must be wounded I hit him with the Reo Reverso" Omi declared "let us head after him!"
"How about after lunch, that little freak ain't going no where is he?" Raimundo exclaimed "I bet he'll be at home crowing how he won over us all night!"
In fact Jack was doing the opposite, he was in the bathroom looking at himself in the mirror trying to cover something but each time that he did the Reo Reverso's magic would crackle over it and would change it back.
"Stupid Omi, Stupid Reo Reverso, Stupid bloody mutant gene!" he grumbled he blipped on his remote control and looked at the jack bot as it came in "Go get me some more maybe if I try later it'll work"
He went back into his lair and slumped down in his chair as it swivelled around, he stopped and then grabbed a hat that was on the desk beside him and slapped in on.
"How long does that stupid Reo Reverso last anyway?" he wondered and looked at the Shen-gong-wu he got and gave it a little poke. "You bloody well better be worth this!"
"Sir Intruder alert!" the Jack-bots said in unison, Jack groaned and pulled the hat on further over his head.
"Look if they ask for me tell them I'm off to get some milk!" Jack mumbled and slumped heavily onto the table. Soon with a clatter and crash of metal the Xiaolin Dragon appeared at the door Omi pointed at him but Jack was more concerned with hiding himself, which he was doing badly.
"Jack Spicer hand over the…why do you have a hat?" Omi demanded.
"Cos I do!" Jack snapped "Just because you guys wear the same thing day in day out doesn't mean I can't change my style every once and a while!"
"You're hiding something!" Kimiko mused.
"No I'm not! Look the Shen-gong-wu is there take it if you want just leave me alone!" Jack cried tugging his hat over his head even further.
"And what leave without even having some fun? Yeah right!" Raimundo chuckled and Omi leapt forward and tackled Jack, they vanished from sight of the others but seconds later Omi screamed.
"Lil' partner you okay?"
"He's a ghost!" Omi screamed "He's dead and has come to seek revenge!" Omi ran up to Clay and leapt into his arms, in his hands was Jack's hat.
"Oh for the love of God Omi you are so superstitious!" Jack groaned as his hand stuck out from the shadows.
"Can I have my hat please?"
"Why? What have you got to hide?" Kimiko sniggered.
"Just give it back!" Jack snapped.
"Not till you come out and show us what made Omi so scared of you!" Raimundo exclaimed and waggled the hat just out of Jack's reach, when Jack leaned forward to get it Raimundo grabbed him and yanked him into the open…
Only to find Jack had covered his head with his jacket.
"Look Jack I'll put it like this, either let us know or I'll burn your butt off!" Kimiko said and Jack sighed.
"Promise not to freak?" he mumbled and they nodded. Jack lowered his jacket and they stared, Raimundo dropped Jack's arm like it was a venomous snake.
Jack's hair was white and his skin was almost deathly pale, Jack hugged his arms and looked down.
"Holy crud he's a vampire!" Raimundo cried.
"I'm not a vampire alright!" Jack screamed "It's called albinism!"
"Al…what?" Omi demanded and Jack face palmed himself.
"Albinism" Jack said slowly "I am an Albino it means my body does not produce colour pigmentation in the skin and hair. In other word I am born with white hair, white skin and no colour in my eyes thus the red colouring." Jack said in a bored tone almost as if he's said it a million times before.
"So you're not a vampire?"
"No" Jack snapped "And I hate being called one, do you have any idea how many times I get mugged by Christians and with garlic and crap?"
"So what's with the lack of make-up and red hair?" Kimiko asked.
"Cheese ball here blasted me with the Reo Reverso and even though I've tried about five times to re-dye my hair it won't work"
"Ahh so it changed you into your original form" Omi cried and then pointed at him aggressively "Creature of the underworld!"
"You know you look like a freakin' garden gnome but I don't go accusing you of being one!" Jack sneered and snatched the hat out of his hand. "Now leave me alone" he grumbled.
"Oh really what makes you think we'll leave you without taking a few Shen-gong-wu" Raimundo laughed and Jack glared at him angrily.
"I don't give a flying monkey shit what you do" Jack snarled "I'm not in the mood"
"What's the matter? Doesn't the little freak want to play?" Kimiko cackled Jack glanced at her and then clicked his fingers, a dozen of Jack-bots appeared.
"Sir shall we vaporise them?" one asked and Jack looked down at the table.
"No just show them out" Jack whispered "I just want to be left alone"
As the Jack-bots showed the Xiaolin Dragons out Jack turned to look at glass plane in which he could see his reflection clearly.
Suddenly a spanner was thrown at it and it shattered to pieces…