Understanding Chase
Quick side note: For those who didn't notice the Avatar shout-out, Kimiko was FIRE BENDING… Urg, kinda wishing I hadn't put it in there… I swear Avatar stole from XS… What with the bald kid with glowing symbols on his head… The controlling four elements, which Omi was tricked into doing in one episode… I swear, they stole it! Kay, enough of my rant, on with the story!
Chapter 2- Broken
Kimiko had just gotten situated and had finally calmed her breathing to a slow and steady pace. 'Peace, quiet, cal-'
Her thoughts were interrupted as a little green dragon slithered out, carrying a scroll screamed, "LOOK OUT! WE GOT A LIVE ONE!" And once again Kimiko screamed, lost her balance, fell, and landed on her butt.
She rubbed her bottom and grumbled, "My butt can't take much more of this abuse…" After she said this, she coulda sworn she heard someone laughing. She looked, it was Raimundo. Go figure, he always laughed when she got freaked out like that. Kimiko picked herself up and dragged her unwilling feet over to Dojo, who was already explaining about the Shen Gong Wu.
"…and it lets you put your thoughts into their head. Oh, hey Kimiko! Where ya been?" Dojo asked cheerfully, Kimiko muttered angrily under her breath, "Anyways, you can read another's mind, control it, make them think things that never happened, make them forget stuff, and you can drive them to insanity too!"
Raimundo made a joke, "Like we aren't already there! Insanity is pretty much useless! Who do we know isn't completely insane!" Omi laughed and agreed with him. Clay only smiled at the comment.
Dojo was already in his forty, fifty, however huge, size and he yelled to them, "C'mon kiddies! We don't have all day!" Everyone hopped onto his back and Dojo took to the skies.
Meanwhile…
A diamond shaped machine blinked a red arrow in a room filled with mechanical doo-dads.
Can you guess whose lair we're at?
"Jack Spicer! Evil boy genius has done it again!" Jack yelled, lifting up a little robot that looked just like Dojo, only it was grey. He noticed the blinking machine and smiled evilly. "Oh yeah!" he cheered as he and dozens of his trademark Jack-bots flew out of his evil lair. (Which isn't really that evil… I mean, it's his parents BASEMENT/GARAGE for crying out loud!)
Somewhere in the dense jungles of the rainforest…
"Great, the one day I didn't bring bug spray," Kimiko groaned, swatting away a mosquito.
Dojo shrunk back as they all jumped off. "Sorry kids, but the Wu is here somewhere… I can feel it in my pancreas," he said as he slithered around, searching for the Wu.
Kimiko shuddered; she didn't even want to think on that one. So, she pushed his last comment to the back of her mind and pushed vines and bushes and the occasional snake out of her way- wait snake! Kimiko screamed and threw the green tree snake as hard as she could. The poor snake hit a tree not far from her; it hit the tree and knocked fruits and leaves from its branches, and something shimmering fell as well. Kimiko blinked and slowly approached the tree.
Lying at the base of the tree was the dead snake. And beside its bloodied body (thanks to Kimiko) lay a strange looking swirly shell. She assumed it was the Wu, as it looked semi-man-made. "Cool!" she said to herself as she reached out to take it.
And wouldn't it figure? As soon as she put her hand around the Wu, a larger, gloved hand came around and held hers. Because the hand was probably twice the size of hers, it touched the Wu as well and it began to glow.
Kimiko shouted, "Can't a girl get a break!" The owner of the hand chuckled at this outburst. Kimiko turned her head so fast she thought she had given herself whiplash for a moment.
"Chase…" Kimiko hissed at him. Chase merely returned his face to his usual evil smirk as she yelled at him. "I challenge you to a Xiaolin Showdown!"
Chase got uncomfortably close and, it sounded like a growl to her, so growled, "The game will be, first to cry for mercy loses." Kimiko's face paled. There was NO WAY she could win if that was the game!
A rustling came from the bushes and Raimundo, Omi and Clay poked their heads out of the underbrush. Kimiko didn't have much choice, even though it was a showdown she would surely lose, she added to his game, "Fine, my silk spitter against your… your…" Kimiko couldn't think. What Shen Gong Wu did Chase have?
Chase's smirk grew wider. "My Reversing mirror…"
"WHEN DID YOU GET THE REVERSING MIRROR!" Kimiko shouted, shocked that he had been able to steal it from them without any of them noticing.
"A while ago," he replied, looking bored, "Anyway, how about we make it so neither one of us can use Shen Gong Wu? It'd make the game much more interesting…"
Again, Kimiko felt despair. Now she was sure she would lose! She tried to read Chase's face to see if he was planning anything, but his features were unreadable. 'Damn him for having such a good poker face!' Kimiko thought in anger.
After a few moments of contemplation, Kimiko finally agreed to his terms. Wait, hadn't she been the one to challenge him? Why did he name the terms? Dangit! She had let him manipulate the game so that there would be no chance of her winning! The land beneath their feet rose up past the trees and it rose until it was into the clouds. The others, Raimundo, Omi, Clay, and Jack had all been lifted up on sort of bleachers.
'When did Jack get here?' Kimiko wondered to herself. Did she just not hear his heli-bot over her shrieks at finding the snake? 'That's probably it…' Her outfit changed to the blue ninja looking suit and she looked to Chase. 'I'm gonna get massacred…'
"GONG YI TEMPAI!" they yelled in unison, and Chase began the onslaught. Kimiko could hardly block his attacks, she may have improved, but Chase was still far her superior. He knocked her down twice already, and things were only getting worse. She could hear her friends cheering words of encouragement to her, but it was what Jack had said that she had really heard.
"Yeah, take her down big boy!"
Kimiko had looked up to the bleachers in shock. Did Jack just call Chase 'Big Boy'? Unfortunately, her distraction left her open to Chase's next attack. His fist hit her square in the face, most of it hitting her eye and the side of her nose and her cheek. Pain seared from where it made contact and she was sent flying back a few feet.
Kimiko put her hand up to her face, it was sore and her nose was bleeding. 'Well, there's a black eye' she thought, getting to her feet.
Kimiko repeatedly attacked Chase with her usual attacks, Judalette flip, Wudai Mars, and all the unnamed attacks she had been using for the past two years. But nothing seemed to be doing any damage to him at all. She felt weaker and weaker with each blow, yet Chase looked unfazed.
Kimiko noticed anger creeping into the features of his face. Suddenly, he grabbed her wrist and twisted it behind her back. His grip was painfully tight and he was bending her arm too far, she worried he might snap it. She heard him whisper into her ear, "Why do you continue to hold back? Show me some of those new techniques you've been practicing…" He released her and she kicked out at him with her flaming flip.
Kimiko snapped at him, "No!" Chase didn't look happy to hear her defy him. And in an instant he had her arm behind her back again.
"You will show me, unless you want to lose your arm…" he growled into her ear.
Kimiko spat back at him, "You didn't say Please!" Chase tightened his grip on her wrist, causing her to wince in pain.
Chase smirked, "Please then, Kimiko, show me that power I saw in your movements earlier…" He released her and Kimiko struck at him in a way she never had before.
Her body turned and her fists struck out, flames shooting from them until she hit Chase with this new attack she had come up with while meditating. She actually hit him! Chase fell to the ground with a pained 'oof'. Kimiko taunted him, "There, now was that so hard?"
Chase glared back up at her, he looked PISSED. Like, ROYALLY PISSED. 'Crap' was the only thing she thought before he threw her to the ground, holding her arm up and pushing it further and further up.
"I'm impressed little Kimiko," he said maliciously, "But, you still lose."
He was bending her arm the wrong way. The pain was horrendous. She could feel her bone bending, the pain overcame her. He was going to snap her arm in two. Kimiko screamed "STOP!" And the sickening snap came and the ear-piercing shriek rang out as the showdown ended. She had asked for mercy. Her arm was broken…
(Side question: how do you spell Judalette flip?)
