Episode 2 - The Homes Of Recreation
It has been a few weeks since Raimundo was promoted as leader and it appears despite his recent loss to Wuya he is leading the monk s in the right direction. This episode starts with Omi facing Wuya in a Xiaolin Showdown over the Cape of Cheung. It is a game of catch the Cheetah.
Omi : Crouching Cougar!!!
Wuya : Silver Manta Ray!!!
Omi is travelling by land as fast as he can while Wuya is flying along in the Silver Manta Ray.
Clay : That Omi should be as fast as a super powered tiger following a hairy rat.
Kimiko : Well I think he should have the advantage with a Sheng Gong Wu that replicates the creature he is chasing.
Raimundo : Don t be too sure of it Kimiko, Wuya is coming through very fast in the Silver Manta Ray.
Omi suddenly jumps out of the Crouching Cougar.
Omi : Tsunami Strike Ice!!!
Omi aims the blast of ice at Wuya and not the Silver Manta Ray but Wuya shoots a blast of energy back at Omi.
Omi : Repulse The Monkey!!!
Omi then dodges Wuya s attack and creates a path to slide.
Omi : Wudai Neptune Ice!!!
Omi slides on the icy floor while creating an iceberg for Wuya to crash in to. Soon enough Omi gets up to speed and catches the Cheetah. The showdown ends so Chase and Wuya are left losing another Sheng Gong Wu.
Chase Young : It appears that you have won again young monk s. Don t believe that this is the end though because there is still a long road to go on the fight against evil.
Our heroes return to the Xiaolin Temple.
Master Fung : I think that you have made great progress my young dragon s. The quests that I sent each of you to fulfil seems to have brought about a change in the maturity and self-taught skills that you all have to deal with on your bigger quest for the Sheng Gong Wu. It will not be long before Omi and Clay too are promoted to Shoku Warrior.
Raimundo : As the new leader of the team I take your compliment for what we have achieved so far.
Master Fung : Speaking of leadership it is now time for you Raimundo to decide what is next for you and your friends.
Raimundo : Does this mean that I can decide anything I want us to do next?
Master Fung : Of course the quest I gave to take was the first step on this new journey.
Raimundo : What about I allow us all to go on a vacation to Hawaii for a week after all our recent battles.
Clay : I take Rai s request, we all need a break of kicking butt.
Kimiko : And we just won ourselves another Sheng Gong Wu so we need time to sit back.
Master Fung : I trust you Raimundo and I will allow you to take this week off. Guan and myself will be here to protect the temple while you are gone.
Master Monk Guan : Remember to take one Sheng Gong Wu each when you are leaving. There are always challenges around the corner.
Omi : Oh we will remember so lets take it to the skies.
Dojo flies the monk s off.
The next day
Raimundo : Ok we have booked our stay in the 5-star hotel so now its time to split. So what would you guys be happy with spending the day doing?
Kimiko : I will be shopping out for some clothes and stuff.
Clay : I think I better head off check out mama s fancy Hawaiian restaurants. We will need a bit of grub after a good walk.
Omi : I ve already decided I will be looking over the island to find good activities for us to look at during the week.
Raimundo : Ok and I will be checking out the sports stores.
So the monk s split and we see them travelling in different directions across the city. 10 minutes after disbanding with the rest Kimiko has a call on her mobile phone.
Kimiko : Hey Keiko did you get the text I sent you?
Keiko replies.
Kimiko : Yeah so Rai took us all for a vacation so we all split and decided to look at whatever we wanted to check out.
3 hours later Clay is still looking for good restaurants and comes across one with a name he enjoys listening to in his mind.
Staring at the restaurant
Clay : Hmm Basil s Texas Barbecue Buffet.
Aw what in self taught nation am I doing? I should be thinking what are the rest of the gang getting up to.
Omi and Dojo are still looking around and they see a number of amusements but none particularly appealing but the beaches and the surfing ranges.
Omi : Typical Raimundo to take us to a place like this on our vacation?
Dojo : You do have to admit it s kind of nice. I could get used to this just being away from the temple for a week no evil villains to worry about, no Sheng Gong Wu vaults. This is just the homes of recreation my good Omi boy.
Kimiko is then seen walking out of the busy streets and towards the beach where she watches the beautiful scenery with the sun about to set. Raimundo comes walking down the other side of the coastline.
Kimiko : Rai come over.
Raimundo is surprised Kimiko asked him so he just walks over to speak to her.
Kimiko : It seems like it has been a long day hasn t it?
Raimundo : No I just think it is because we have had so few days off during our 4 years training at the Xiaolin Temple. It is only now that I have become leader that I can make more of the decisions for us as a team.
Kimiko : Yeah actually now that I think about it does make the years we trained for seem even longer.
The two of them walk down to the beach and start wandering along the coastline by the sea.
Raimundo : I know that you think this is crazy but we actually have a lot in common.
Kimiko : Do you really think so Rai?
Raimundo : It was like a whole new life for us all those years ago when we came to the temple and started training. We were both doing well in school, we both had a plan for the future and we just enjoyed our lives the same way as other teenagers.
Kimiko : I have to admit it was sort of weird for me moving in to a new life style and having to live with you guys for 4 whole years. Maybe if there was other girls at the temple I would have felt different but eventually I got used to you guys.
Raimundo : I got used to being there if you remember when Omi defeated Mala Mala Jong and Master Fung did not promote me to Xiaolin Apprentice. I will never forget when that happened it was all because of me that Wuya was restored to her fleshy form.
Kimiko : It was just a phase that you went through and Master Fung was proud of you when you overcame it and so were the rest of us. Even ask Omi, Dojo or Clay.
Raimundo : It took me a while to forgive myself because although I had Wuya defeated in the end it was still some time before I was given the rank of Apprentice.
Kimiko : But you totally saved our lives Wuya s rock beasts were about to squish us all and then you opened the puzzle box Omi got from Dashi.
Raimundo : I think that you are right. I just had to redeem myself because at the time I was afraid of the decisions I made in life and I didn t know if what I had done was right.
Kimiko : Master Fung probably made you leader because you faced that period and realised what had become of them. You worked your way towards earning the rank of Shoku Warrior and you deserved it in the end.
Raimundo : Omi always rubbed it in my face that I was the last who made it to Apprentice. When Dojo had his Sheng Gong Wu craving Master Fung asked one of us to stay behind and keep him in the cage.
We see flashbacks of Master Fung asking one of them to guard Dojo.
Omi : Raimundo you stay behind.
Master Fung : No Omi you will stay behind and watch Dojo.
Omi : What why me and not Raimundo? It took him the longest to become an Apprentice and no one thought he would make it. I mean except for me.
Back in the present
Kimiko : You and Omi were always funny. I still look back at some of those fights you used to have, you were like brothers Omi always believed he was the bigger one but you showed him.
Raimundo : When I was chosen by Master Fung as the leader of the team Omi gave me a sign of respect and I think he learned his lesson because he always wanted to be the better brother as you said.
Kimiko : It was always fun to see the two of you going against one another like Cats and Dogs. I think it strengthened your bond because now yourself and Omi are the best of friends.
Raimundo : I always knew that from my promotion it was not the end because evil will never be fully destroyed as Master Fung would usually say.
Kimiko : It may be that we would save the world once and evil would need time to recover. We always win out in the end even there when Omi won the Cape of Cheung and the Silver Manta Ray from Wuya.
Raimundo : Wuya was once our toughest enemy until Chase Young came along.
Kimiko : Wuya could have been far worse but Chase did not restore her full powers and I am sure he had a very good reason for it.
Raimundo : It is hard to believe that those two have finally put their differences aside. Do you think it will last?
Kimiko : Hopefully not if we stay strong and keep our guard for all the showdowns.
Raimundo : I remember Omi telling us that when Master Fung gave us each a quest Omi devised a plan to travel back in time and stop Hannibal Bean from turning Chase Young evil. It backfired and in the alternate universe Hannibal ended up turning Guan to the Haylin side instead.
Kimiko : It seems that no matter what is done to stop it Chase will always end up on the dark side.
Raimundo : Master Monk Guan believes that if we keep fighting there is still a chance that there may be good left in Chase.
Kimiko : It will be a long shot but hopefully we will still be able to save him.
Raimundo : It is only recently that Omi chose that as his quest that I have started considering would I want Chase back on our side. It was a decision that he made 1,500 years ago wishing for eternal life and it may haunt him for the rest of his time on Earth.
Kimiko : Not if we can battle it out and bring him back to the good side.
Raimundo : Master Monk Guan may be the key to achieving that goal. I have a feeling that there is more to the fact he joined Master Fung at the temple than we know.
Kimiko : Guan was best friends witch Chase so I think we could still do it with him by our side.
Raimundo : As he said there is a reason that Dashi trusted him to never give up on Chase.
The sun is ready to set on the beautiful Hawaiian Beach and Kimiko stands there in front of Raimundo thinking of all they had talked about.
Raimundo : Walking down here thinking about all that we have gone through over the past 4 years makes me think that we have learned more over our time training in the temple than we though we would before joining.
Kimiko : And more.
Kimiko takes Raimundo by the arm and wraps it around her back. The two of them stare at each other and laugh.
Raimundo : You must think that I am such a fool taking my time off just to talk.
Kimiko : I actually don t I m just thinking about the sunset. We don t get to see this everyday back at the temple.
Kimiko prepares to kiss Raimundo and Raimundo is ready to do the same. So the pair stand together and kiss one another on the lips as the sun sets, smiling comfortably afterwards.
Raimundo : It s getting late now would you like to go and have a look where the others are?
Kimiko : We may as well I don t want us losing Omi, Clay and Dojo.
Raimundo calls Clay on his mobile.
Clay : Hi Raimundo where are you? I think I found Omi and Dojo so I just got to tell them and we can all get back together.
Raimundo replies to Clay and tells him where they are.
Clay : Omi I know where Rai and Kim are.
Dojo : Great looks like the gang are back.
Omi : Not just yet Dojo.
Within 5 minutes the monk s are all re-united.
Raimundo : Well that seemed like a quick split for such a long day.
Clay : It was probably long because it has been so long since we were away from the temple just like this.
Omi : I believe that when we return to the temple a new journey will be straight behind the wall.
Raimundo (thinking) : Oh my god that was sooooo lame.
Kimiko : I think what you mean to say is that a new adventure lies straight around the corner.
Omi : Once again I stand corrected.
Clay : Well what do you say we get a move on after all that we could have done during the day.
Raimundo (thinking) : Oh I think I had the most fun out of all of us.
Raimundo : That s the spirit Clay. Its time for us to go see our hotel that we will be staying for the week and get a good long rest.
With that the Xiaolin monk s fled and they return to their hotel.
Meanwhile back at the temple Chase Young and Wuya have came back to attack now that the monk s are gone so they approach Master Fung and Master Monk Guan.
Master Monk Guan : It s Chase and Wuya.
Master Fung : You are not going to get the Sheng Gong Wu.
Wuya : Who is stopping us the monk s are gone and you are weak in your old age.
Chase Young : Unlike the rest of us.
Chase Young starts attacking Guan and Fung but the two of them fight back. Mainly Master Monk Guan fights Chase in this scene.
Chase Young : I see that you have kept up with your training all these years Master Monk Guan.
Master Monk Guan : I have never let my guard down. I have always been here to protect the world from evil alongside the rest of the Xiaolin monk s over the generations. They have been fighting to keep the peace for 1,500 years.
Chase Young : You may think that you once knew me. Even Hannibal Bean thought that he had me figured out but in the end I trapped him in the Ying Yang World until the monk s brought him back.
Master Monk Guan : Hannibal was using you all those years ago, he knew that you wanted Dashi to have us both promoted to Xiaolin Dragon. Your desire was your fall in the end.
Chase Young : My turn to the Haylin side was not my fall it was the beginning of a new life for me I did not need to live in the shadows for my whole life.
Master Monk Guan : You do not believe that Chase I know that you don t.
Chase Young : I needed to make my own decisions and to become a Dragon it took independence and it took a determined effort to put everything behind. I had to be free of Hannibal and I had to map out my own journey.
Master Fung is still fighting Wuya mostly just defending himself and not fighting back as much.
Wuya : What s wrong old man can t fight a girl. You will never save the Sheng Gong Wu without the monk s if you go by that old image of men being stronger.
Master Fung : You will not have the Sheng Gong Wu.
Wuya : There are only three that I need, the Witches Crystal Ball, the Wand of Yahira and the Cape of Cheung.
Master Fung : The monk s have them.
Chase Young : Seems very reasonable. Surely they would not leave them here at the temple when those three are the only ones we need.
Wuya : I will rule the world once more as soon as I have my full powers restored.
Chase stops his fight with Guan and Master Fung is no longer fighting Wuya.
Chase Young : I believe that our work here is done.
Wuya : The monk s will be our next target.
Chase Young : Wuya I believe that I made the right decision by putting our differences aside for the sake of evil.
With that Chase Young and Wuya walk off until they are out of sight.
Master Fung : I hope that I have trained the monk s well enough for facing Chase and Wuya again. I sense that it will not be long before the world once again faces a battle as tough as it did 1,500 years ago.
Master Monk Guan : History will repeat itself and Wuya will have her full powers back. Hopefully Chase Young will find it in his heart as he did so long ago that we need him to save the world.
Back at Hawaii we see the Xiaolin monk s at the 5 star hotel they are staying in for one week. They are all gone to bed happy with the day that they took off and looking forward to more during the week. Little do they know that evil is just around the corner and it won t be long before they are challenged once again by Chase Young and Wuya.
So the episode ends on a tense note with the monk s knowing that they are enjoying their week off but Chase and Wuya could be planning to attack when they least expect it.