"Conversion"
Disclaimer: I do not own 'Xiaolin Showdown' in any way.
Open on a dark castle with fog all around. Night. Inside, Dojo is being kept prisoner, shackled to a stone wall. His head lowers in sadness. A door opens and a intense light shines in, brightening the dreary room. Silax steps in and stands over Dojo.
"Cheer up, dragon. You got what you wanted; your girlfriend is free. Now, I personally don't see –"
"Why did you take her?" Dojo asks calmly. Silax looks away. "I felt like I lost everything that day in Beijing. I searched for weeks without resting. I had practically given up all hope." Dojo raises his head. "You took away the only girl I loved – the only girl I will ever love. And for what? To torture her for 1,500 years!" Dojo screams trying to attack Salix, but the shackles hold him back. Silax grins.
"I took her for a greater reason than that. She was my … subject." The dragon slightly shakes his head.
"S-subject?"
"Yes, you see … I programmed her to track the location of Shen-Gong-Wu, not unlike yourself. My goal was to create a creature that could face anything in its path, be unstoppable, and have tremendous strength and will."
"For what?"
"To take over the world, of course." Silax walks up to Dojo and gets down on one knee. "I saw in Doja great potential. She would become the perfect test subject in my plan." Dojo shakes his head.
"No …"
"After years of working … I finally succeeded." Dojo's eyes widen. "She became … the perfect apprentice."
"You're lying!" Dojo yells as he tries attacking Silax again. "Even if you did all that to her, Doja's still strong enough to resist joining the evil side!"
"Oh, she has yet to show her new dark side to you or your friends. But believe me, her evil instincts will soon start back up again, and when they do … not even you will be able to stop her."
Open on the Xiaolin Temple. Night. The Warriors, Master Fung, Doja, and Jack are all outside next to the front steps of the Temple. Doja is in her full-size while Jack is loading the Shen-Gong-Wu onto her back. Jack finishes and walks over to the Warriors and Master Fung.
"We greatly appreciate the courage and effort you will put into finding Dojo," Master Fung says. He puts his hand on Jack's shoulder. "Be careful, Jack." He steps back and Kimiko steps forward.
"So, uh … I want to wish you … good luck. Bring back Dojo in one piece." She turns around and begins to walk away but stops. She slowly turns back. "And, um … take care of yourself," she says slightly smiling. Jack nervously smiles and nods.
"I'll do my best," Jack responds. Clay steps forward.
"You're a good guy … doin' this for us. Best of luck, pardner." Clay steps back and Omi steps forward.
"All right, freeze! This loser love fest is starting to creep me out," Jack interrupts. "Later." He mounts Doja.
"Wait!" yells a shrill voice. The Warriors turn to see a Jack-bot hover by Jack with a tissue in his hand. Jack raises an eyebrow. "Don't go! I love you!"
"Ok, I'm definitely building some girl-bots when I get back. Let's roll, Doja!" He grips her tight as Doja nods and takes off.
Omi, Kimiko, and Clay yell their good-byes and good lucks. Raimundo stands next to them silent with his arms folded.
"Still don't trust the guy. This isn't going to end good, guys. I just know it," he says while watching Doja disappear into the clouds.
Open on the dark castle. Dojo is relentlessly trying to break free from the shackles. He breathes fire on it, but even that doesn't seem to work.
"What are you trying to accomplish?" a deep voice asks. Dojo looks up into the shadows and Silax walks out. "You traded yourself for Doja. Even if you do break free from those shackles, our agreement prevents you from leaving."
"You're just going to keep me locked up here forever?"
"Doja never complained," Silax says. Dojo growled.
"So, explain something to me. What was the purpose of taking all that time and re-programming Doja to become your … 'apprentice' to just simply let her go?" Dojo asks. Silax chuckles.
"Oh, I didn't let her go."
"Wh-What do you mean?" Dojo asks. Silax paused for a moment.
"I let her loose." Dojo's eyes widen again. Silax closes his eyes and takes a deep breath in. He opens them back up and grins. "It's beginning."
Back with Doja and Jack in the air.
"Ok, toothbrush, slippers, pudding, humidifier, night-light, picture of me at Sea World … yep, looks like I have everything," Jack says while finishing his inventory. "Hey, Doja, did you bring anything with?"
Suddenly, Doja frowns and her eyes turn red. She commences to growl loudly.
"Whoa. Someone's a hungry dragon. It's a good thing I brought pudding!"
Doja quickly spins her head around and shoots a huge ball of fire at Jack. The evil boy genius screams and slides down to Doja's tail. He hangs on with all his might. Doja growls and smiles evilly.
"No. Please no. Don't do it!" Jack yells. Doja starts to undulate fiercely. "I … hate … undulating!" Jack screams while clinging onto her tail. Doja flies straight up causing all the Shen-Gong-Wu to untie and fall off. Jack does his cross. Noticing the Longi Kite, he lets go of her tail and jumps into a freefall to grab it. Doja turns around, now heading downward toward Jack while preparing a ball of fire in her mouth. Jack closes in on the Kite. He grabs it and quickly puts it on. Doja shoots her fireball.
"Longi Kite!" He just flies out of the way of Doja's fireball. Doja growls in frustration, proceeding in her attack. She chases Jack in the air as he maneuvers his way through the clouds with his Kite. He locates the Glove of Jisaku and flies over to it.
"The Shen-Gong-Wu are leaving with me!" Doja yells as she charges towards the Glove. Jack turns his head and gasps. Doja hits him sending Jack back a few feet. She grabs the Glove of Jisaku and cackles. Jack grins.
"Forget I had … this?" Jack pulls out the Lotus Twister from his pocket and Doja's eyes widen. At the same time, Doja and Jack yell their respective Shen-Gong-Wu.
"Glove of Jisaku!" "Lotus Twister!"
The Glove attracts all the Wu as the Lotus Twister stretches toward it. Jack hangs onto the Lotus as it pulls him to Doja's Glove. The Wu in Jack's pockets also come out. He screams and the Fist of Tebigong flies right into Doja's hand.
"Fist of Tebigong!" Doja pulls back with the Fist in her other hand as Jack gets closer.
"Not the face," Jack whimpers as Doja lands a hard punch right between his eyes. He falls fast through the clouds, knocked out from the punch. The Longi Kite detaches from him and flies to Doja.
As Jack closes in on the ground, his heli-pack opens and slows down his fall. He reaches the ground and the heli-pack closes. Doja flies down with all the Shen-Gong-Wu. The spot where they land is the exact same place where Omi first battled Silax. The Rush Bracelet is still in the same patch of grass where it was last left Doja chuckles looking upon her defeated opponent. Jack just laid there. All of a sudden, a portal opens close to Doja. Silax jumps out as the portal shuts. Doja turns her head and smiles. Silax grins at all the Shen-Gong-Wu Doja now has.
"It was all too simple, master," Doja says in a deep voice. "The plan was flawless." Jack wakes up and groans. He has a black eye from the Fist of Tebigong.
"Didn't I tell you? Now that we have Dojo and practically all the Shen-Gong-Wu, our strategy is coming full circle. He will soon be turned to the dark side."
Jack watches in shock. Doja and Silax continue their conversation, not noticing Jack is awake.
"Come, my young apprentice. We have much to do."
"But master, shouldn't we finish off this pest and his friends first? They are the only ones that could thwart our plans. We must rid of them before they try anything else!"
"Patience. Clearly, they are not trying to rescue Dojo themselves. Sending their slow friend here was the only choice they had. It was a poor effort," Silax says calmly. Jack growls quietly. "Golden Tiger Claws!" Silax yells as he opens another portal. He and Doja jump into it, shutting right after.
Jack sits up and notices something shiny in a tall patch of grass. He crawls over to the grass and puts his hand inside. He smiles and pulls out the Rush Bracelet.
Back at the Xiaolin Temple, the Warriors are in the training area. Clay is practicing with his lasso, and Raimundo is practicing his wind element. Omi and Kimiko are sitting down talking.
"Hopefully, that monster Silax won't harm Dojo," Kimiko says. She sighs. "I still can't believe Dojo traded himself."
"Fear not, Kimiko. I trust that Doja and Jack will safely bring back Dojo," Omi replies. Raimundo stops practicing and groans.
"Give it a rest, will you, Omi?" Kimiko and Omi turn their heads to Raimundo.
"Rai, stop beating the poor kid up. We all know you hate Jack and think he'll betray us. You have to remember that he helped us last year with defeating Wuya," Kimiko says.
"Ah, that was just because Jack couldn't rule the world if Wuya was already ruling it. This is way different. Nothing is at stake for him this time."
"I see where you're comin' from. How do we know Spicer isn't just goin' to use the Wu to take down Doja when she least suspects it?" Clay asks.
All of a sudden, everyone hears a faint scream in the distance. Clay looks out through the Temple doorway and sees something fast heading straight to him. Omi, Raimundo, and Kimiko run over next to him and also look out. The scream gets louder as it closes in on them. Everyone jumps out of the way as the figure runs right by them. Clay grabs his lasso and throws it at the fast figure, tying it around him and pulling which stops the person from running. Clay stops him right before he is going to smash into a wall. The dust clears around the person. It was Jack. He opens his eyes and notices he is two inches away from the wall.
Jack sighs with relief and turns around. He takes a step forward, but his legs tangle together. Quickly spinning around, he trips and smashes into the wall, falling down. The Warriors walk up to him. Jack is tied up by the lasso. Kimiko turns him over.
"Jack! What happened! Where's Doja … and the Wu?"
"I got jacked," he says while passing out.
Inside, Jack is resting with an ice pack on his head. He still has his black eye. The Warriors sit close watching him.
"Poor fella. He looks more bruised than a rooster after a cock fight," Clay whispers. Raimundo shakes his head and gets up. He begins to walk out of the room.
"Raimundo? Where are you going?" Omi asks.
"Nobody listened to me. I told you guys this would happen," Kimiko jumped in.
"Wait. You said Jack would betray us, but he didn't. Just –"
"If everyone else is too much of a coward to fight this Silax because of a stupid deal, then I'm going to fight him on my own. Don't wait up." He walks out of the room.
"Hold on there, pardner!" Clay yells as he begins to follow the hot-headed Brazilian.
"Rai, stop!" Kimiko says as she, too, follows him. Omi stands up ready to follow the others. Jack grabs Omi's robe, which frightens the young monk.
"Doja's bad. She took me down and stole the Wu. It felt like payback for before." Omi frowns. "She's working with Silax." Omi gasps. He grabs Jack's collar and begins to shake him.
"Where did you see this? How did this happen?"
Jack is getting sick from Omi shaking him. He stops him.
"It was Silax and Doja's plan to find Dojo, have him trade himself for Doja, and make me take pretty much all the Wu with Doja to try and rescue him." Omi raises an eyebrow. "Here. This flashback will explain everything."
Silax is seen talking to Doja. "Didn't I tell you? Now that we have Dojo and practically all the Shen-Gong-Wu, our strategy is coming full circle. He will soon be turned to the dark side."
The flashback ends and Omi gasps quietly.
"It cannot be! Doja is … evil?"
Then suddenly, a Jack-bot pokes its head around the corner looking into Jack's room.
"Jackie!" it shrieked while running into the room with its arms flailing.
"Ah, kill me now," Jack says under his breath.
Raimundo runs to the Temple vault with anger in his eyes. He opens the vault and walks down the steps.
"Nobody wants to help me - that's fine. It's not like they'll –"
Raimundo halts when he spots Silax in the vault stealing Shen-Gong-Wu. He has his back to Raimundo.
"Silax!"
The man quickly spins around holding the Golden Finger.
"Uh-oh," Raimundo says as Silax shoots the Golden Finger. It freezes Raimundo in his place. Silax grins and runs past him out of the Vault. He closes the Vault, trapping Raimundo inside. Kimiko and Clay are waiting for Raimundo outside the vault. Silax runs into them, and the two Warriors promptly react. Kimiko and Clay pose, ready to fight.
"Where do you think you're goin'?" Clay asks while holding his fists out in front. Silax looks both ways, and Kimiko starts to attack by jumping high into the air.
"Judallet Flip! Fire!" She shoots a trail of fire at him. Silax turns and jumps onto a wall. He rapidly runs up as the fire follows.
"Seismic Kick! Earth!" Clay screams while stomping his foot, sending a crack in the ground towards the wall. It shakes everything, but before it can make Silax lose his balance, he does a back flip and lands on top of a roof. He continues to jump from roof to roof as the two Warriors chase him.
The Golden's Finger's power wears out on Raimundo. It is pitch black inside the Vault.
"He locked me in!" He begins to blindly search his way around the Vault for any Shen-Gong-Wu that could aid him in breaking out.
Kimiko and Clay continue to chase Silax while he hops from one roof to another. Kimiko looks forward.
"Omi! Silax is here and he's coming your way!"
Omi hears her and leaves Jack's side. He runs to the doorway and sees Silax on the roofs. He narrows his eyes and pulls out the Orb of Tornami.
"Orb of Tornami! Ice!" The Orb shoots out water onto the nearest roof which instantly freezes. Silax does a front flip, looking like he's going to land right on the ice. However, instead he spreads his arms and glides over it. Kimiko and Clay stop running.
"Silax can fly!" Kimiko asks in bewilderment. Clay gasps as he watches Silax use the Fist of Tebigong to punch down the wall of the room Omi and Jack are in. Omi jumps out of the way of the falling rubble. Silax lands near Jack who does his trademark scream.
"He's come to finish me off! Just like he said he was!" Silax slowly walks over to Jack.
"Listen, uh, I didn't tell your evil plan to anybody. I-I promise. So, if you let me live, I … still won't ever tell anybody? Are-Are we good?" Jack nervously smiles and Omi gets up. Silax opens his hand and claws suddenly emerge. Omi looks on confused.
"Ahh! No, Doja!" Jack shields himself. "Wait …"
Silax growls and lowers his hand.
"Doja?" Omi asks. Silax spins around and stares at Omi. He begins to approach the young monk. Omi sits on the Orb of Tornami.
"Orb of Tornami!" The Orb sends him up into the air. Surprised, Silax raises his head. While still in mid-air, Omi aims the Orb directly at him and shoots. The water hits Silax dead-on, sending him smashing into a wall. Omi lands and puts the Orb away. When the water clears, Silax is gone … but Doja is in his place! Jack opens one eye and then runs over next to Omi.
"I told you! I told you that was Doja!" Jack says. He sighs. "Nothing gets by this evil boy genius."
Doja cautiously gets up, watching her opponents very closely. Kimiko and Clay jump over the rubble while Omi approaches Doja. The dragon growls and shows her teeth. She was in her full-size form. Omi stops about ten feet from her. He had a look of innocence on his face.
"Doja … it's ok. You are not yourself. While you were imprisoned by Silax, he tampered with your mind. He turned you evil, which is exactly what he's going to do to Dojo if we are unable to stop him."
Doja squints and frowns. She looks into Omi's eyes.
"I know you are good, Doja. I've seen it. Please try your best to fight the evil that Silax put inside of you …"
Doja's eyes shake and begin to water up. Kimiko and Clay look on in confidence. Doja closes her eyes tightly.
"Do not forget that you and Dojo once loved each other. No matter how powerful evil is … it can never blind true love."
Jack and his Jack-bot hold each other while they both cry. Jack wipes a tear from his eye.
"That was deep," he says all choked up. Doja walks to Omi with her head still down and her eyes closed. She puts her hand on his shoulder. He smiles.
"Thanks, Omi …"
Kimiko and Clay smile while Jack and his Jack-bot bawl their eyes out.
"… For nothing!" Doja growls while opening her red eyes. She picks up Omi and throws him into the wall behind her, knocking him out. Kimiko, Clay, Jack, and the Jack-bot gasp.
"What a fake!" Clay yells. Doja grins at the cowboy and motions for him to fight.
Clay pulls out his lasso and throws it at Dojo, tying her up. Doja laughs. Effortlessly, she spits out a small spurt of fire which instantly disintegrates the rope. Clay gulps.
"I have a lasso of my own," Doja says. She breathes a long rope of fire and grabs onto it, which doesn't burn her hands. She swings it around in the air and throws it at Clay. The lasso ties around Clay, singeing him. Doja pulls on it sending the cowboy into a wall.
"I guess we'll just have to fight fire with fire!" Kimiko yells as she pulls out a Wu. "Star Hanabi! Fire!" A huge fireball shoots out of the Star at Doja. As the fireball gets closer, Doja spins and hits the fireball back to Kimiko using her tail. Kimiko gasps and freezes upon seeing it heading straight for her.
"Rush Bracelet!" Jack yells. He speeds to Kimiko and pushes her out of the way of the incoming fireball. They both grunt as Kimiko lands right on top of Jack.
"You … saved me," Kimiko says exasperated. She looked deep into his eyes as Jack just smiles. Doja screams and notices the Jack-bot all alone. She breathes fire on it and the Jack-bot melts. Doja quickly flies away. Kimiko and Jack watch her leave.
"Ooh. Look. She destroyed your Jack-bot."
"That's ok. There was a 90-95 percent chance that was going to happen anyway."
"Wait … what's that?" Kimiko asks. She saw something bright shining off of the Jack-bot. She walks over toinspect it.
"Hey, those are not bruises! I swear I've never laid a finger on any of my Jack-bots!"
"It's a brand mark. A message," Kimiko points out.
"Really? What's it say?" He walks over to her. She squints to read it.
"Mongolia … Castle." They look at each other. "Doja's good side left us a message!"
"Yes … but what does it … mean?" Jack ponders as he strokes his chin. Kimiko shakes her head at his stupidity.
Back with Dojo and Silax at the castle … a close-up of Dojo's face reveals he's in much pain. His eyes are closed and beads of sweat drip down his face.He hears avoicenearby.
"Relax, Dojo … your transformation is nearly … complete," Silax says as Dojo opens his eyes revealing thick flames. Dojo grins evilly as Doja watches sadly from the outside through the dungeon window. Silax's bellowing laughter is heard throughout the castle as everything fades to black.