Chapter 3: Falling into the wrong hands
Raimundo watched Jack like a hawk, always worried if he was alright or that Kimiko wasn't going to try anything horrible. All that happened was he either did chores or just sat there staring into space.
However word had gotten to Master Fung and Jack had been called to see him, he walked in and sat down in front of Master Fung looking down at his feet.
"Jack I heard about the argument you had with Kimiko, why did you hack into her computer?" he asked quietly.
"Omi told me to" Jack said softly.
"Did you not think it would have been wiser to ignore Omi's request?" Master Fung demanded.
"I need to be a good boy, if I don't do as I'm told then…no one would like me" Jack whispered and hugged himself "I don't like being alone, if I'm good then the other won't mind having me around…maybe if I'm really good then I can be their friend"
"Spicer what brought about this idea?" Master Fung inquired.
"Everybody used me, I'm better as a tool or a servant than an evil boy genius. Wuya used me, Chase used me, Hannibal used me, the…the monks used me…" Jack said gently rocking back and forth "It goes well until I do something stupid and then they get tired of me and get rid of me…it's always my fault they don't like me"
"Spicer…" Master Fung began and Jack looked up.
"Can I go now?"
Master Fung nodded and Jack left quickly, Raimundo had been watching from outside the garden and looked when Master Fung called him.
"May I speak with you for a moment Raimundo?" he asked and he closed the door as Raimundo came in.
"I can't help but notice how you look out for him" Mater Fung began.
"The poor kid been through a lot and the others aren't helping" Raimundo muttered.
"I know, but from what I see Jack needs professional help; to be at a point where he believes everything that goes wrong is his fault and where he thinks that its okay to be abused the way he is…he needs to be taken care of by professionals not in a place where he can be easily used to steal the Shen-gong-wu from us" Master Fung said "In his current state I think he would even give all our Shen-gong-wu to Wuya herself if she asked for them"
"That's why he needs our help; you can't just ship him off to a funny farm!" Raimundo cried "I'll take care of him…"
"Raimundo despite your good intention this is not your burden to bear, now I know a place where a good friend of mine works he'll take care of him"
"But…" Raimundo whispered "You can't do this…"
"They'll be here to pick him up at the end of the week" Master Fung said slowly, Raimundo glared at him and left…
Not even knowing that Jack had been standing outside the window the entire time, tears came to his eyes and he got up.
"I never wanted to be a burden…I wanted to be good" he whispered.
"Needless to say: I told you so" the other voice cackled "Well bye bye Jackie boy you're off to the Looney bin!"
"I was being a good boy…and they still want to get rid of me!" he mumbled as he got up "what do I do now?"
"My advice for you Jack is to run away. Let's face it these guys didn't want you around what makes you think the people at the Looney bin would want you?" the voice declared, Jack nodded and walked to his room.
"Hey guys have you seen Jack?" Raimundo asked and Kimiko shook her head.
"Sorry Rai we haven't seen Jack since that little tiff he had with Kimiko" Clay declared and Raimundo looked even more concerned, he checked his room and found that it was bare. All of Jack's things he had were gone, his clothes and heli-bot were gone and all that was left was a note…
"Dear Raimundo
Thank you for taking me in, I hope I have been good use to you. I don't want to be any more of a burden than I already am so I've head off home. Once again thanks
From Jack"
"Oh man!" Raimundo muttered "I guess he heard Master Fung"
"You mean our little 'friend' has gone…oh dear and it's my turn to wash the bathrooms tomorrow why couldn't he run away tomorrow night?" Kimiko sighed sarcastically she yelped when Raimundo threw a towel at her.
"You don't get it do you? The way Jack is right now any one could get him to do anything!! Include destroy us!"
"Oh please he couldn't do that even when he was some-what mentally healthy" Clay muttered.
"Okay he has bombs and guns and plenty of other painful devices he could easily use on us but he doesn't, has anyone wondered why that is?" Raimundo demanded "Cos he didn't want to, even when we beat him black and blue he doesn't shoot us but now he thinks he's nothing but a tool…"
"Which he is" Kimiko piped up.
"He'll do anything no questions asked"
"Oh come on Rai who'd want Jack around anyway I bet he's just head off home that's all" Omi exclaimed.
Jack sat on a boulder looking down at the Xiaolin Temple; he gave a sigh and looked at his feet.
"Even that old guy got sick of me"
"Can we just get home so we can mope in comfort?" the other voice declared "my butt's cold"
"Your butt?"
"Okay, okay our butt!" the voice amended "So where you going to go now? Not like anyone wants you around is it?"
"I'm thinking maybe if I go home and get all my wu and go back they'll like me again"
"Jack wake up and smell the horse shit! It's not a matter on wherever they like you or not the fact is they think you're fucking nuts!"
"I'm not insane…I am?"
"You're talking to me what more evidence do you need?" the voice declared coldly, Jack looked up to see a black and grey bird sitting on the branch. Yin Yin Hannibal Bean's pet bird and on its back was a speck of red which bounced down and landed on a branch near Jack's head.
"Aww why so sad boy?" he asked sickeningly sweet.
"I don't know…"
"I saw what they did to you Jack, all you wanted was to be their friend and they used you!" he sneered "man what did you do this time to piss em off?"
"I…I…I don't know! I don't know what I did wrong I was just doing what I was told!" Jack cried and clutched his head.
"Well do you want to get back at them?" Hannibal asked "Revenge is always good"
"I don't want to hurt them…they're my friends"
"Friends don't smack their friends so hard they cough up blood and go flying through a wall do they? Friends don't make their friends do all their chores and still mock them behind their backs do they?"
"You're worse than the voice in my head!" Jack muttered.
"I want you to do something for me Jack" Hannibal whispered "I want you to go back to the temple and get me their wu"
"Well looks like you get a second chance, might as well do it he'd force you to or hurt if you don't"
"Really?"
"Yep so just suck it up and do it, sooner it's over the sooner we go home"
"Okay" he mumbled and then looked at Hannibal "What do you want me to do?"
"Heh, heh, heh good boy"