Hey, you guuuuuuuuys! (That's from a kids show... I can't remember what it's called. [10/19/14 Edit: I REMEMBER WHAT IT'S FROM! That one show called "Electric Company" or something. XD]) How's it going?
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Inspired By: Contest prompt from SilverDawn2167: "Somehow, the Black Dragons make Jack join their dojo using this bo staff that has this ability to make him act like what they want him to. Also Jack turns on his friends but Kim still loves him despite what he does to her. So she's able to break what the Black Dragons did to him somehow and they end up getting together. This would have Kim emotional hurt comfort and eventually Kick fluff at the end where Kim saves Jack."
"An idea can only become a reality once it is broken down into organized, actionable elements."
—Scott Belsky
Ty really wants Jack in his dojo.
Is it too much too ask?
Without Jack, the Black Dragons can't even hope to beat the Wasabi Warriors. Heck, even getting Kim back would be something! Though Ty doesn't think he'd be willing to accept her back after her betrayal. And yet, there's no way Jack would willingly come to them. He has to convince the teenager somehow…
"Kai! Carson! Frank! Arthur!"
Why not ask his students?
Plan A: Frank's Idea
"Okay, Hayley, are you ready?" the sensei asks the female student.
"Yeah," she responds, pushing the neckline of her shirt down a little bit before running her hands down her sides. The plan is simple; she would use her… attributes… to 'convince' the teen to join.
The man is convinced it will work. Jack is a teenage boy, despite his martial arts abilities. He can't resist.
"There he is!" Frank whispers, as Jack walks out of the dojo. It's not at all creepy that they studied his schedule to figure out when he would normally leave. Not at all.
Hayley approaches her target with a predatory look on her face. Ty shudders. That look scares him. He and Frank duck behind a bush and watch.
The girl reaches the teen and drapes herself over his arm, lightly stroking a finger down his chest and speaks. The two onlookers can't hear the words being exchanged, but it's not looking good. Jack steps away from Hayley and says something. The girl frowns and responds, approaching him again.
Ty facepalms as Jack steps away again and says something curtly. The sensei's eyes then widen as the teen briskly starts walking in their direction.
Jack blinks, startled as Ty and Frank burst out from behind a bush near him and take off running. He stares after the two members of the opposing dojo, before shaking his head and continuing on his way.
Plan B: Carson's Idea
Ty doesn't know what Carson has against Jack and Kim's relationship. He really doesn't. The sensei himself thinks they're an adorable couple.
But, she is why the last plan failed. They failed to consider Kim. Jack's devotion to her wouldn't possibly allow him to accept Hayley's advances.
This plan includes Kim, though. It can't fail!
(Even though that's what he thought about the first plan.)
The sensei/student pair crouch behind the same bush that Ty and Frank were behind for Plan A, waiting for a moment where Kim is alone. Finally, a window of opportunity opens. Quite literally, actually, because a window opens somewhere within the dojo.
"It's so hot!" Milton's voice says. They planted a bug (courtesy of Arthur) inside the enemy dojo, so they can hear what everyone is saying.
"I'm going over to Falafel Phil's, man," Jerry states. "I think he's got the AC going on full blast over there."
"Me too," Eddie says.
"Me three," Jack adds.
"I don't see what's wrong with you guys," Kim's voice says. Ty hears Carson growl quietly, and he shoots the teen a pointed look. "I'm perfectly fine."
"Yeah, because you have some sort of 'internal feminine air conditioning system,'" Rudy's voice whines. "Look at you! You're not even sweating!"
"Women are actually more efficient sweaters than males," Milton's voice states. "Female bodies evaporate sweat on their skin more efficiently, which cools down the body without a lot of perspiration."
Silence.
"So girls sweat less," Eddie finally says. Milton confirms this with a "yup."
"Well, why didn't you just say so?" Jerry finally says. His voice is farther away, meaning that he had begun approaching the doors. The other guys follow him out.
"That's totally fine, I'll just stay here by myself! All alone!" Kim calls after them. She rolls her eyes when they don't respond and starts practicing on a dummy.
"Okay, let's go," Carson says, approaching the dojo. Ty follows, and together they sneak towards the back entrance of the dojo. The teen opens the door, wincing when it squeaks loudly. They look around. No one seems to have noticed.
After slipping inside, the creep down the hallway towards the main room. Ty peeks around the circular archway.
"Ha!" Kim breaks a couple of boards, then rubs her hand. "Gotta work on that…" she says to herself. Ty notices the bright purple cord that snakes up her side and splits around her chin, continuing on towards her ears; she has earbuds in. Her back is to them.
Ty retreats from the archway. "Ok. She's got earbuds in. She's not gonna hear us. We grab her and go, 'kay?"
"Stupid Jack would do anything for his girlfriend," Carson says darkly. Ty sends him a warning look, but the boy is already approaching the girl from behind.
"Wait, Carson, the plan!" Ty hisses, watching helplessly as Carson gets closer. He then sighs and stands up.
The teen grabs the blonde around the waist with one arm, pinning her arms to her sides. He and covers her mouth with the other had. She jerks in surprise, and one of her earbuds fall out.
"Hey, Kim," Carson growls in the ear without the earbud. "Did ya miss me?" She angrily tries to speak around his hand and struggles to escape Carson's grasp. Ty has no doubt that every other word she's attempting to say is a curse.
Ty sighs and walks around to the girl's front so she can see him. He smiles sheepishly when she stills and glares at him. "Heeeeey, Kim… how's your day been going?"
The hatred she's communicating through her narrowed eyes is practically palpable. He winces at the intensity of her gaze. If looks could kill…
"Look, I'm sorry, alright?" Ty says, feeling a little guilty (and scared, but he's not going to admit it). "We just need you for something."
Kim raises an eyebrow.
"What could we possibly need you for?" he responds, answering the silent question. "Well… It's kinda hard to explain… but we have to kidnap you… so could you just go with it?"
She gives him a challenging glare that says 'not a chance,' before suddenly bowing her head. Her chin is practically touching her chest. Ty cocks his head to the side, confused. What is she doing?
He gets his answer when she jerks her head back, hitting Carson in the face. Ty winces at the resounding crack that echoes through the air.
"OW!" Carson yells, instinctively releasing the angered blonde and staggering backwards. He clutches his nose. Ty can already see the blood running down the injured teen's nose and mouth. Kim whirls around and shoves him in the chest, hard enough for him to fall. She then draws back one foot and kicks right in between the teen's legs.
Carson squeals so loud that Ty is sure the sound can be heard for miles.
Kim squats down next to the (crying?!) teen's head. "Don't ever touch me again," she hisses. Carson nods brokenly and curls up into an even tighter ball.
The blonde straightens and sends a furious glare in Ty's direction, not looking away when running footsteps enter the dojo. Ty does, though, and sees Jack and co arriving on the scene. They either saw what was going on through the glass doors (why didn't they consider that?!) or heard Carson's agony. Either way, they're here, and the plan is ruined, so Ty needs to get Carson and go. Except…
Ty glances at the downed teen. It doesn't look like he's going anywhere soon.
He lifts his gaze to meet that of the the newcomers. Milton and Rudy seem wary (the latter more so than the former), Jack is trying to calm down his girlfriend, Eddie is pretty much wincing on Carson's behalf, and Jerry is snickering at the injured teen's pain.
That did not go well.
Plan C: Kai's Idea
They lied low for a while after that; like, 'two and a half months' while. It was only so they could be sure that they disappeared off of the Wasabi Warriors' radar (and so Carson's nose could heal). Ty noticed that they kept close to Kim; there was always at least one person with her. Well, there was for about a two weeks. Then she got annoyed with them and put a stop to it. It was almost amusing, because she's not who they should have been protecting.
Kai's idea is a bit more… violent than the other two they've tried. The blonde claimed that it's only so they could temporarily "put him out of action," but Ty suspects that Kai just wants a reason to hurt his cousin.
This one takes place at nighttime, after a party thrown to celebrate the winning of another tournament (the fourth one in a row!). The BD would simply take Jack by force and bring him back to their dojo. And then they'd… well, they'll figure that out after they get him.
Instead of just Ty and Kai on this one, Carson, Arthur, and Frank are there are well. Ty has seen the damage that Jack can do first-hand, and the man doesn't want to take any chances. He brought his best students for that reason. (Well, Arthur isn't really one of Ty's best students. The bratty teen is actually quite the opposite, but Ty, fearing for his job, had been forced to bring him along.)
They lie in wait in their specified hiding spots in the parking lot, knowing that Jack always cut through it after exiting the mall, and also knowing that his mother wouldn't be there to pick him up because something had come up, so Jack had to walk home. They also know that Jack, being the guy he is, didn't want to bother his friends by telling them because he's just stupid like that. No one except his mother and the BD knew he would be walking home. The situation can't be any more perfect.
Sure enough, after about an hour of waiting, a sound is heard. Ty identifies it almost immediately; it's the sound that the wheels on Jack's skateboard make. It's go time.
Jack frowns and dismounts from his skateboard when a figure steps out from behind one of the pillars in front of him. His frown deepens when he identifies the person. "Arthur? What are you doing here?"
Arthur puts a hand over his heart, as if offended. "Why, Jackson, there's no need to be so hostile." He then smirks. "Besides, my dad owns this place. The better question would be what am I doing here?"
"How is that any different from—"
"Shhh…" Arthur says, cutting him off. "Don't speak. Save your voice for your screams."
The threat sends a chill down Jack's spine, even though he knows that he can easily take down Arthur right now. But something about this is off. Arthur wouldn't just come up and speak to him out of the blue…
"Arthur's right, Jack," a voice suddenly says from behind him. Jack whips around to see Frank standing there with his arms crossed and a smirk on his face. "Don't waste your breath on something as stupid as words."
"Frank?" Jack asks, turning so that he has both Frank and Arthur in his line of sight. "What is this, some kind of meeting of the losers?"
"No, that's next week," Frank says offhandedly. Jack stares at him. Arthur facepalms.
"You're so stupid!" Arthur exclaims. His voice sounds close to a whine. "No one else was supposed to know about that!"
"Well, you two clearly have some issues to work out," Jack says, slowly stepping backwards as the two start to bicker. "So, I'm just gonna go…"
"Not so fast, Jack," another voice says, once again behind him. The teen tenses upon recognizing the person's voice and turns around.
"Carson," he says coolly, dropping his skateboard but otherwise giving no sign that he felt threatened. This is not good. Something's going on here, something that was clearly planned out. But what? "You'd think that a guy who almost lost any chance of having kids in the future would stay away from the guy dating the cause of that, but…" He shrugs. "Guess not."
Carson's smirk disappears at Jack's statement. "Shut up! Your stupid girlfriend just… caught me off-guard."
"'Caught you off-guard.' Sure. That's why you avoid her at school and squealed like a little girl that one time she tapped your arm, when all she was asking for was the textbook on the desk next to yours."
"I was… bruised on the spot she tapped!"
"You seemed fine to me."
"Would you just shut up?!"
"Aww, I'm hurt. I thought you came all this way just to have this lovely conversation with me."
"You think you're so smart, Jack," a new voice says.
"Smarter than you, at least, considering the fact that you failed Kindergarten two years in a row," Jack retorts, turning to face his cousin. He's surrounded on all sides; who should he face? He decides to turn his back to Arthur, because the obnoxious teen is the smallest threat.
Kai shrugs. "What can I say? The teachers loved me so much that they held me back. Now," He balls up one hand into a fist and punches it into the other. "We're gonna beat you up, and then drag your sorry butt back to our dojo."
They all start to stalk forwards. Jack swallows his slight fear and shifts into a defensive stance.
Phil gasps quietly from his hiding spot and runs off to go tell the other Wasabi Warriors.
"You have three seconds to let him go before we make you."
The five battered (Jack had put up quite a fight) Black Dragons freeze at the girl's voice and look up. The Wasabi Warriors had somehow figured out that they were here! Carson, who had previously been helping Kai lift an unconscious Jack up, drops the arm he was holding and raises his hands in surrender to appease Kim. He ignores the glares that his fellow Black Dragons aim at him.
"Oh, come on!" Ty yells. "Can't you just leave us to steal a member of your dojo in peace?!"
He gets mixed responses, all of them being some variation of 'no.'
"Fine!" He motions for Kai to drop Jack. "We will get him! I promise you that!"
"Keep talking," Kim says, taking a threatening step forward. The Black Dragons run away.
Plan D: Arthur's Idea
The cool down period this time is even longer; four months of waiting. Ty had almost forgotten about his desire for the teen to be in his dojo. He had recently taken up a new hobby (*cough*knitting*cough*), and that provided suitable distraction for him.
So, when Arthur comes into his office four months later, he is actually quite surprised. He had forgotten that Arthur hadn't explained his plan yet.
"It involves a couple of friends, if you don't mind…"
It takes another month for everything to be prepared.
Carson is really annoyed that he got stuck with this job.
He understands the reasoning behind it, of course; Jack's mother would recognize Kai, Arthur is too snooty and would probably put her off, Ty has to be back at the dojo with Arthur and Truman, and Frank is just… Frank.
That doesn't mean that Carson has to like it.
This is what he's thinking as he stands at the front door of the Brewer residence, dressed up as a mailman, with a long rectangular box in his arms. (Well, that, and 'This costume smells weird. Where the heck did Arthur get it?')
He hears footsteps approaching the door and gives Kai (who is stationed in the tree next to Jack's window in a camouflage outfit with binoculars) a quick thumbs up, before turning back to the doorway.
Jack's mother opens the door, as predicted. "Hello."
"Hi," Carson says, putting on a bright smile. "I have a package here for a—" He pretends to check the label on the box. "—Jack Brewer?"
"Oh, ok." He hands her the box as well as a clipboard and pen.
"Just sign off here to signify that you've gotten it."
"Alright." She sets the box down on the small end and signs her name. "You know… you seem a little young to be a mail carrier." She hands him back the clipboard and pen.
Inwardly, Carson panics. On the outside, he shrugs. "Just doin' what I can to make ends meet."
Her eyebrows crease in concern. "Trouble at home?"
"Kinda. Most of the money I make is paying for my little sister's hospital bills." She is sick; she's just sick with a mild cold that's already showing signs of clearing up. A little exaggeration never hurt anybody.
Ms. Brewer puts a hand over her heart. "The poor dear. What's wrong with her?"
Carson sighs, feigning sadness. "She has a really rare type of cancer. The doctors are doing everything they can, but each surgery they do costs thousands of dollars. I barely paid off the last one."
"What about your parents?"
"Dead." That's not a lie. He and Annie just live with relatives.
"You poor things!" She purses her lips, as if thinking about something. After a pause, she says, "Wait here," and goes back inside.
"What are you doing? Why aren't you walking away?!" Kai hisses into his ear piece.
"She said to wait," Carson hisses back. "Do you want me to give her a reason to come looking for me?"
Ms. Brewer comes back and pushes something into his hand. "Here. It's not much, but I won't be able to sleep at night if I don't do anything." She folds her hands over his and stares at him. "You keep praying for that little girl, okay? Don't stop believing." She releases him and steps back into the doorway. "Don't stretch yourself out too thin. Stressing yourself won't help your sister." And with that, she closes the door.
Carson stands there for a moment, oddly touched. He then opens his closed hand.
The woman had given him a hundred dollars!
He stares at it, shocked. She had given a hundred dollars to a stranger she had never met before in her life, hoping to help them and not expecting anything in return.
That's when the guilt sets in. She had done this amazing thing for him, and he's going to turn around and steal her son's will.
"Dude, did she just give you money?!"
Kai's voice snaps him out of his guilt-induced stupor. "Uh… yeah. Yeah she did."
"Ha! How much?"
"…twenty," Carson answers, not quite sure why he lied.
"Nice!"
Carson doesn't respond, and instead turns and walks away from the house.
"Jack! A package for you just arrived!" the mother calls up the staircase in the direction of her son's room. He opens the door and walks out. She hands it to him.
"Thanks," he responds, accepting it and going back to his room.
Jack sits down on his bed and examines the box. "Huh. It doesn't say who it's from," he says to himself.
He opens the package and sifts through packing peanuts finding a dark red metal bo staff and a piece of paper.
"Welcome," he reads aloud, before staring in confusion at the bo staff. "'Welcome' to what?"
He stares at the note again. He flips it over to see if there's anything on the back; nothing. He turns it back to the side with the single word, and scrutinizes the letters. "Wait… this handwriting is familiar…"
"The target opened the box…" Kai says into his miniature microphone, addressing Arthur's friend Truman.
"Good," Truman's voice replies. Kai hears him say "Go, Neville," to someone in the background, probably his contact in Seattle.
Kai grins as a red mist comes out of the end of the bo staff. Jack coughs a couple times, before passing out onto his bed. "The target is unconscious. He's ours."
There will be a part 2 for this, but only if you say so in a review! c-: I know. I'm evil. What else is new?
Any guesses as to who Truman's "contact in Seattle" is?
Until next time,
~BP
10/19/14 Edit: Response to Reviews-
EB: I want part 2! This is freeing hilarious!
I'm glad you found it so "freeingly hilarious." XD
Silverdawn2167: Ahhhh I love it this is exactly what I wanted. Part two, part two
Part two is up, in case you couldn't tell. :)
Guest: Part 2 Part 2 Part 2!
I'm glad for your enthusiasm. :)
DirectorT: Dude that was awesome! But seriously, Neville...!? You stole that from iCarly! Lol anyway, loved the chapter, can't wait for part 2!
Well, I didn't exactly "steal" him. I borrowed him. I gave him back, I promise! :)
kickinitwithyou2: Part 2 part 2 part2
It's up it's up it's up. :)
Kicklover24: Nevil !
Holeee crap.
Interesting..
Update soon !
kicklover24
Well. I'm glad you find it interesting, and I have in fact updated.