Setting: Jack Spicer's 'evil lair'. Present day. Ten or fifteen minutes later.
Jack was bored. Wuya was locked in the puzzlebox, his robots were in dire need of repairs, and Chase and KJ were in some crazy situation that had turned Chase into a cat.
He sighed. "Man, I wish something exciting would happen."
And it did.
"Oh, really?"
Jack jumped nearly five feet in the air and shrieked at the sound of someone's voice.
"Jack-bots!" He cried instinctively. But then he remembered how broken they were.
Laughing, Chase Young stepped out of the shadows and approached Jack.
"Chase!" Jack exclaimed. "You're not a kitty anymore!"
Chase twitched and resisted the urge to strangle the boy. If he was lucky, Cherushii would do that for him, shortly before leaving.
"No, I'm not." He replied. "I'm actually here to invite you back to the citadel."
Jack's eyes widened as he grinned.
"Really? Woohoo!"
As Jack danced around madly, Chase smirked.
Setting: Chase Young's citadel. Present day. About twenty minutes later.
KJ walked out of the library, on her way to the weapons room, and ran into Chase and Jack.
The two had just returned from Jack's house, and when Jack saw KJ, he shrieked.
"Do you recognize him?" Chase asked, pointing to Jack.
KJ eyed Jack warily.
"Unfortunately, he does seem familiar...But the name escapes me."
"Huh?" Jack asked, thoroughly confused. "You know who I am, KJ. I'm Jack Spicer, evil boy genius."
KJ rolled her eyes as Cherushii walked up.
"Oh, I've heard of you. You're the kid who worked for Wuya before she got locked in the puzzlebox again." She laughed.
Jack frowned. "I am not the kid who worked for Wuya! I am Jack Spicer, evil boy genius!"
"Uh huh. Sure." Cherushii nodded. "Anyway, KJ, I was thinking of sparring."
Her hand shot out and clenched around KJ's throat.
KJ made a strangled noise and tried to relieve the pressure on her throat.
Her eyes turned gray, as Kacie took over, and she was able to remove Cherushii's hand.
The two took off for the weapons room.
Chase turned to Jack with a smirk on his face.
"Who was that?" Jack asked him.
"That was Cherushii. She's a friend of KJ's that's staying with us." Chase explained.
Jack gave him a puzzled look.
"Does she always strangle people?"
"No." Chase answered a little too quickly.
Jack shrugged. "Oh, okay then. So, what's our first order of official evil business?"
Chase wanted oh so badly to roll his eyes…but he controlled himself and refrained.
"I have a special, evil task for you." He told Jack instead. "I need you to go to the Xiaolin Temple and find the puzzlebox that Omi hid."
Jack's face lit up. "Really?? This is so cool!" He squealed.
Chase once more refrained from rolling his eyes.
"Yes, well…you better get going." He suggested.
Jack shrieked. "You're right!" He activated his backpack-bot, and after running out of the citadel, flew off.
Chase groaned loudly, surprising himself. How long had he been holding that in?
He heard a snicker and spun around to face Cherushii.
"I thought you were sparring with KJ." He said, raising an eyebrow.
Cherushii laughed. "Yes, you would think that, wouldn't you cHAse? (pronounced cha-say)."
Chase continued to wait in silence for an answer.
"We were sparring, but I stabbed her with a very pointy, shiny thing. She ran off to the medicine closet murmuring something about HIV." She laughed again.
Chase began to worry… just a bit, though. Did he really let this lunatic into his house? Apparently so.
"So…Where is she now?" He dared to ask.
"Oh I don't know. I should find her. Shank!" She thrust out a fist and came mere centimeters from hitting Chase in the face.
Laughing in a way that reminded him of a very, very insane person, Cherushii ran off.
"What was I thinking, letting her into my home?" Chase silently asked himself. "Obviously not a whole lot."
With a frustrated sigh, he too walked away.
Setting: Chase Young's citadel. Present day. A few hours later.
"Hey Chase!" Jack Spicer yelled, returning to the citadel. "I got the puzzlebox that you wanted."
"Excellent."
Jack shrieked and jumped as Chase appeared out of nowhere.
Once again, Chase had to refrain from sighing and rolling his eyes.
"Here." Jack handed Chase the small box.
"Hold these." He told he boy in return, handing him the Reversing Mirror and the Serpent's Tail.
"Hey, how'd you get these?" Jack asked him.
"When I was still a cat, KJ took all of the Shen Gong Wu from the Xiaolin Temple vault. You were there; don't you remember?"
Jack shook his head.
Chase said nothing in reply as he opened the puzzlebox.
With a loud cackle, a ghost-like Wuya burst from the box.
"I'm free!" She exclaimed.
Chase smirked. "Spicer, the Shen Gong Wu."
"Huh?" Obviously, Jack had not been paying attention. "Oh, right. Here."
Jack gave the Serpent's Tail to Chase, and propped the Reversing Mirror up on a stair step behind Wuya.
"Serpent's Tail!"
"Reversing Mirror!"
With a flash of light, Wuya became a person once more.
Cherushii and KJ came running out to inspect what was going on.
"Hey" Cherushii exclaimed. "It's the scary witch lady!"
The light faded, and Wuya frowned.
"Cute. Who, might I ask, are you?" Wuya responded.
Cherushii grinned, revealing pointed canine teeth.
"I like shinies." She said in an official tone.
KJ burst out in laughter, as Wuya stared at her blankly. Jack twitched, and Chase put his hand to his forehead.
"KJ," He ordered, "Go take Spicer and show him the submission move you learned last night."
KJ's eyes flashed crimson.
"Let's go, Jack." She said in Carmen's voice, leading him off to the weapons room.
Jack reluctantly followed her.
"Wuya, I have released you from your prison to ask for your assistance." Chase explained.
She smirked. "So, the great Chase Young has finally realized that he needs help? Of course, Chasey, what do you need my services for?"
Chase twitched. First cHAse, now Chasey…He was just making mistake after mistake with who he picked to help him. He would've been better off with a rock and an old nail.
"First, allow me to introduce your partner. Cherushii, Wuya. Wuya, Cherushii."
Cherushii grinned.
Wuya stifled a groan.
Chase smirked, and proceeded to explain the situation to Wuya.