This is my Xaiolin Showdown OC. I grew up with Xiaolin Showdown and I've watched a few episodes of Xaiolin Chronicles and I kind of like it. But this fic takes place during the first series. If I watch more Xiaolin Chronicles and like it I might make a spin off. But yeah, I had this OC in my head since I was younger and now me going to write and draw her. FYI: I made two Shen Gong Wu of my own Design. Also I'm going to assume that Jack was 16 when the first series came out cause I honestly cant find his age on the Wiki and this other site said he was 13 but that site was kinda…eh on it's information if ya know what I mean. So unless someone can actually show me an episode that confirms his age for me this will stay as is.
~3 years before Jack released Wuya (so Jack and my girl are around 13)
It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon. The sun was shining and the birds where singing. The sound of children's laughter was everywhere. Yes today was a perfect family day. It was too bad Cindy and Maxwell Rogers thirteen year old daughter, Harley, or "Vex" as she liked to be called, was up in her room again, making God knows what.
Maxwell blamed himself for his daughter anti-social behavior. He was a technological wonder child growing up. And when he and his wife had there first and only child, he taught her everything he knew. He was starting to regret it. During classes she wouldn't raise her hand to answer questions or give her opinion and during the social periods she would keep to herself and would read or draw blue prints for a new invention.
"I'm really worried about her." Cindy said from her spot in the kitchen. Her gaze drifted from her husband to the stairwell that led to her daughter's room. "I think it's time we took her to one of our friends. Lots of them have kids now." She said while giving her husband a concerned smile. He only sighed and pinched the ridge of his nose.
"I know your getting worried about her, and it's justified. But I don't think we need to set her up on 'play dates', this is a phase, I went through it and it passed, and soon it will pass her as well." Maxwell said. Before his wife could reply they heard a door swing open.
"Mom! Dad! Check it out!" They heard Vex scream. Their daughter ran down the stairs, wearing a white muscle shirt with black shorts and black Dock Martins with a black lab coat. Her dark green hair was tied in a bun to keep it out of her face while her black eyes where covered by her signature goggles: Steam punk wielding goggles with lime green lenses. "Mom, Dad, I know you guys have been concerned about me being kind of a loner. But I got a solution!" She said while digging through her coat pocket.
Her parents where smiling on the outside, but on the inside they where hoping she wasn't going to do what they thought she would do. She pulled out a remote and pressed a button with a power symbol on it.
They all heard a humming sound and loud thumps coming down the stairs. Both parents went wide-eyed when they saw what their daughter had made. A robot. The robot was seven feet tall, it was all black but the plating that separated the limbs and bending points of each other had lime green detailing. The face was sporting the same goggles as Vex but in turquoise, and the chest had big silver 'V' painted on. "I know the color choices art really good, but all I had was the black, green and silver left over." Vex said while hugging the robot.
"Um…Harley-" Her father began only to be interrupted by the robot. "Not Harley, Vex." The robot said in a metallic voice. "Vex…who is this?" The father said, fearful not to tick off the robot.
"Oh how rude of me." Vex said, getting off her robot and raising her goggles to rest on her head. "This is REGAC, it stands for: Robotically. Engineered. Guardian. And. Companion. You guys keep saying I'm spending too much time by myself so I built him, he's the alternative to a human companion." She said proudly waiting for her parent's response.
They both just looked at her. "That's very nice Har-…Vex. Why don't you two go out for a bit?" Cindy suggested. "Good idea. I wanna show REGAC how to act in public. Lets go REGAC!" She said. REGAC picked her up and walked out the door.
After a few minuets of silence Maxwell turned to his wife. "I believe the Spicer's have kid her age." He said. "And they're having a little house party next week." She replied.
~One week later~
Vex was very upset. Her parents forced her to go to a house party. The party was hosted by of friend of her fathers. Not only did they make her come but they made REGAC stay in the car! Her mind drifted to her robotic friend, hoping that she could sneak out to the car and have REGAC take her home so they can make some new inventions. Right as she was about to leave her parents caught her. "Vex, you said you where going to try and be more social." Cindy said, Vex only sighed in aggravation.
"Cindy, Maxwell! You made it, and this must be your daughter Harley." Said a man with red hair. "My name is Vex..." She mumbled under her breath, avoiding eye contact. "Right...well I'm still glad you came." He said, hoping not to make things awkward. "Well now that you've met our daughter, can we meet your son?" Maxwell said. 'Son? Oh no now it made sense', Vex thought. 'They wanted me to come to meet this son of there, I thought it was weird I was the only kid here!'
"Oh you mean Jack, well unfortunately he doesn't want to come out of the basement, he's to busy making some electronic-do-dad." The man said. 'Electronic-do-dad?' Vex thought to her. 'Is he an inventor too?'. Vex was hoping so, cause if her parents where going to force her to talk to people, might as well be someone who likes to build stuff. "Oh what a coincidence! Harley here loves building little machines!" Cindy said, clasping her hands together, hoping her daughter would want to meet this boy.
"Um...where is your basement...I want to meet...Jack was it?" Vex said, still avoiding eye contact. She really wasn't used to talking to anyone except her parents. The man pointed to a door with a sign that said "Genius at work!". Vex walked to the door and opened it. As she began to walk down the stairs she heard the familiar sound. 'Ah~ the sound of a welding tool and the smell of burning metal.' She thought while sniffing the air. When she reached the bottom she looked back turned to her. "Hey" She said in a nervous voice and looking at the floor. The boy turned and faced her. He had spiked up red hair and white skin and yellow goggles with a red swirl in each lens. He raised his goggles above his head to reveal red eyes and a little mark under his left eye.
"Who are you!?" The boy yelled. Vex's first reaction was to flinch, not being used to having someone yell at her, her second reaction was to yell back. "First off don't yell at me, and second off I'm a bored kid who was dragged to this lame party!" She screamed at him.
Jack took a look at the girl and noticed the lab coat and goggles. "You making a fashion statement or something?" He asked in a bored tone. Vex eyes widened in confusion and anger. "Fashion statement! I am not one of those pompous girls who blindly follow a meaningless idol! And your one to talk! Your wearing a lab coat and goggles too!" She yelled, turning her heel and began walking up the stairs. "I came down here with the impression that there was an inventor down here, someone I could actually talk to, but like always I was mislead."
"Wait you're an inventor?" Jack asked. "Heh, guess I should say sorry or something, I've just been seeing a lot of girls wearing goggles and stuff just cause it looks cool." Jack said while pulling his goggles back down, turning back and welding his machine. Vex stopped on the fifth step and turned. "You've noticed that too. Finally, I thought I was going crazy." She said, walking back down and taking a look at what Jack was welding. "So what are you making?" She asked.
"Eh, just fixing my Jack-bots. I'm having trouble keeping the head on." He said. Vex took a look at the robots neck and thought. "Hmmm, try using a ball joint. It takes a lot of force to break it off, plus you get full head articulation, depending on if anything is on the shoulders to block it." She said putting her goggles on and walking towards a workbench.
~30 minutes~
It had been half an hour since Vex went down stairs to meet Jack. "I hope everything is going alright down there." Cindy said while talking to Jack's mother. "Well nothing exploded so it must be going fine." Jack's mother said while taking a sip of Champaign. Both women turned their heads when they saw the basement door open. Jack and Vex both walked out, oil covering there hands and faces. "So your robots outside?" He said while whipping a cloth around his hands. "Yep, his name REGAC. If you like him enough I might give you his general body type schematics." They continued their talk till they reached the front door left the house to see Vex's robot.
Cindy looked at the shut door with wide grin on her face. "Oh my baby made her first friend! And this one is real!" She said. "Same here." Jacks mother replied. Both women clang there glasses together then took a drink.
~Time skip~
It had been three months since Vex and Jack met and both pre-teens enjoyed each other's company. They would spend there time in each others lab or walking around the town and get involve in mischievous acts: Dumping hot sauce bombs off the freeway over pass, hacking into Vex's school and messing with the system, and there personal favorite was GIANT ROBOT FIGHT!
There parents where concerned but since Jack's parents really didn't have the time for him and Vex's parents liked her being out more, they weren't going to complain. Today Jack snuck into Vex's school during lunch and was currently looking for her. He couldn't find her and decided to ask someone.
He walked towards a group of attractive girls and cleared his voice getting their attention. "Hey have you seen a girl named Vex around, she's about this tall, pretty decent body, green hair, goggles and a lab coat." He said, his hands gesturing to make an average female figure. The girls thought before snickering.
"She's at the counselors office." One said before drinking her milk. Jack turned and walked away, only to turn back and pull out a laser pointer and pointing it at the girl's milk, causing it to explode. The girl screamed as the liquid covered her and her friends. Jack left with a satisfied smirk.
He walked through the hallway, and looked at the door till he saw a door that said "Counselor A-M" and Counselor N-Z". He sat in a chair that was between the doors and waited for Vex to come, he noticed though the walls where paper-thin.
"I've noticed your still sitting by yourself Harley. Would you like to talk about that?" A famine voice said. "Nah I'm good." Another voice said.
Jack smirked. Yep Vex was in there. His smirk widened when he realized that the counselor said Vex's real name.
"This is very serious Harley. I've called your parents and they told me you do have a friend, but I have yet to see him. In fact you're being more reclusive than you used to be." The women said, her voice laced with genuine concern. Vex looked up to the counselor, a smile working it's way on her lips. "You mean Spice Rack! Yeah I hang with him all the time, except at school, he's home schooled." Vex said. Her smile diminished when she said that Jack didn't come to the school.
Jack scrunched up his nose in an annoyed manner when he heard Vex say the nickname she gave him. He didn't mind if she said to him when it was just them, but saying it to someone else just ticked him off. She would often joke saying that if he took over the world she would scream, "Listen citizens! Lord Spice Rack has something to say!"
"He doesn't come here? Well that's quiet sad, but you can still make friends here." The counselor said. Vex just looked out the window. "Nah, I'm not interested in making friends with them. The people here are pretty generic. Plus no one really wants to talk to me after they saw me and Spice Rack wreck some chicks car." Vex said while tapping her fingers on the chair. The counselor's eyes widened. "You're the one who destroyed Amanda Smith's car!" The counselor never raised her voice at a student but after that she had to listen to Ms. Smith complain and cry over her car. "In my defense me and Jack where testing an invention in the parking lot, she kind of parked on top of the target." Vex said. The counselor sighed in frustration. She obviously wasn't going to get anywhere with this student today, as always. "Just go Harley." She said, rubbing her temple trying to get rid of the head ach that was coming on.
A door swung open and Vex walked out, her head hung low. "Hey Vexy." Jack said, causing Vex to turn. "Spice Rack!" She screamed and hugged her friend tight. The counselor walked out of her office to see why Vex was scream. She had a shocked expression at what she saw. Vex had her arms wrapped around an albino boys neck, her head resting on his chest while he had his wrapped around her waist. Both pre-teens seemed to be whispering something. "Miss Rogers…I wasn't aware you had a boyfriend." She said.
Vex immediately looped her arm Jacks shoulder. "Nah, I'm single and happy! This Jack, Aka Spice Rack!" She pinched his cheek. "Spice…Rack…" She looked at the boy and now understood how the strange girl had a friend that would understand her. Both pre-teens walked out of the hallway and began talking about new inventions.
~Time Skip~
It has been a year and 4 months since Vex and Jack met. They where still very close and where as mischievous as ever. They where currently sitting on their robots, floating in the air with modified guns filled with a special formula. "So…I might be moving soon." Vex said as she adjusted the site on her gun.
"What!" Jack screamed almost causing both pre-teens to fall. "Why are you moving?" Jack said trying to regain his composure. Vex looked away. "My parents are getting a divorce." She mumbled. "There just not working out. So I'm gonna be staying with my mom in San Diego for while." There was an awkward silence after that. "Hey look, a target." Jack said. Both aimed at a stereotypical couple and blasted them.
The formula caused the couples cloths to deteriorate. Usually the friends would be laughing but they just couldn't. "Hey Jack…I'm gonna miss you. "Vex said, while avoiding eye contact. "Same here Vex." Jack replied.
~Time skip~
Jack was ticked off. Wuya was currently floating in his personal space while he was trying to fix one of his Jack-bots. "Why cant you do anything right!" Wuya yelled at Jack. "Don't yell at me!" Jack screamed at Wuya. Out of habit he threw a wrench at the ghost form, but it phased through her and hit something glass. Jack let out an aggravated sigh and walked towards the glass. He kneeled down and saw the broken glass was a picture.
It was a picture of him and Vex sitting on the freeway over pass they used to dump hot sauce bombs off of. It was a different picture cause they switched lab coats and goggles. "Man." Jack said under his breath. He missed his friend. It had been a while since his last video chat with her, in fact the last time they video chatted was a few months ago, after he accidently released Wuya. "I should check on her soon." He thought aloud.
"Check on who?" Wuya asked while looking at the broken image. Jack just walked back to his workbench without saying a word. "Jack who is this female?" Jack tried his best to ignore the ghost and just focus on fixing his robot…and then fixing the other 12... this was going to be a long day.
Meanwhile in San Diego, Vex was getting out of a cab and saw her mothers home. She had just spent the month with her dad and was back to spend a month with her mom. Vex was really excited because she got to use her new toys again.
While Vex was visiting her dad, he got her a gift: two bronze bracelets. Vex didn't think anything of it at first. Till one day they started to glow. The next day some people came into her fathers building. "Are you sure it's in here Dojo?" An Asian girl said to a little dragon. "I'm sure of it! The Sonic Gauntlets are here!" The dragon said. (Yes the Sonic Gauntlets is one of the Wu that I made up)
"Sonic Gauntlets?" Vex said to herself. Suddenly the bracelets on her wrist began to glow up to her forearm. Her fingers and knuckles where then covered in the same glow. The glow faded to reveal two bronze gauntlets. After that she ran to her room to look into what she had in her possession. If she had stayed a moment longer she would have seen her albino friend entering the lobby and engage in a battle.
She discovered that the bracelets her father gave her where actually called "Sonic Gauntlets", they would give her enhanced strength, and allow her to make sonic blast by clapping her hands or fist together. She decided she wanted to find more of these "Shen Gong Wu". She built a device to locate more of them. She ended up finding a sword called "The Whip Lash Sword" (made this one too).
The Swords blade was like metallic rope. It allowed her to swing the blade at an enemy or wrap it around an object to either grab it or swing away. Though these two where the only ones she was able to acquire, she was happy with them, though out her time with her dad she made more gadgets and took fighting classes so she could be something different. Maybe a super hero. She didn't know, she didn't even have a name yet. But it didn't matter. She was going to try this hero thing and see where it led her.
When she went into her home she noted her mother wasn't there yet. It was probably for the best. It would give her time to unpack. "REGAC please take my things up stairs." REGAC took her things to her room and began to set her lab up. While REGAC set her things up she looked at some files on her computer and saw blue prints for one of Jack's inventions. "Jack…Spice Rack…"
'I haven't heard from him in a while, I should check on him.' She thought
~To be continued