I don't own Xiaolin Showdown.

Yeah this fanfic is going to be like '24 season 8'


"What?" Raimundo yelled. A bomb? What was a bomb doing inside a museum? Unless someone wanted to kill people, or to just lure the two of them inside their trap.

"Go," Kimiko suddenly said.

"What?" Raimundo asked as he cleared his head.

"Go!" Kimiko said, with more urgency and slight meanness in her voice.

"I'm not leaving you," Raimundo said.

"GO RAIMUNDO!" she yelled this time, "I NEED TO DISARM THIS THING AND I CAN'T DO IT IF YOU'RE HERE! NOW GO!"

"What about you?" he asked her.

"JUST GO!" she yelled.

Raimundo obeyed and he ran out of the Egyptian exhibit. As he was running, he couldn't help but think about the bomb going off and blowing up the whole museum. Not that he cared about the museum, but he cared about Kimiko. He didn't want her to blow up along with the museum. He wanted to run back and help her but he knew better than to disobey Kimiko's demands. She wasn't mean at all. She was a loyal friend and nice to them but whenever she was in a tight situation, like now, she turned from nice to completely mean, if they disobeyed her orders.

She'll be fine, she'll be fine Raimundo repeated over and over in his head as he pushed the door of the museum that Kimiko unlocked earlier, and got out. Kimiko was smart and strong. She always got herself out of certain tough situations. But this was a different situation. There was a bomb in there and Raimundo did not know if she would be able to disarm it. Once he was outside, all he did was wait for her.


Inside the museum, Kimiko was frantically trying to disarm it. She couldn't do it. There were too many wires. It was like completing an impossible puzzle. She groaned in frustration but she never gave up. If people died today because of this big explosion, she was going to die along with them. There were still ten seconds ticking down. She quickly moved some of the wires around and inserted them into places where she thought was appropriate for the wires to go to. Five seconds left. As sweat beaded down her face, the last seconds ticked down.

Three…two…one

Kimiko flinched away as she waited for zero to come. She opened one eye and to her surprise the bomb read four zeros but it hadn't exploded yet. Instead the top of the gadget had opened up and there was a white piece of paper folded seven times. Kimiko reached into the gadget and retrieved the letter. She unfolded it and saw that there was a note:

Well, well, well, you found this 'bomb.' There are plenty of bombs located outside of Paris. We are planning to activate them as long as you give us Kimiko Tohomiko.

~P.B.

Kimiko looked from the paper to the sarcophagus where the bomb was located. Someone was out to get her. If she didn't hand herself over now, a lot of people were going to die because of her.

What did they want with her? Unless it was money. She was the only rich person that her friends and the villains knew about. Unless her friends, had turned their backs on her. No! They wouldn't do that! She had been friends with them forever and she always trusted them. She felt moisture coming down her face. She put her hand on her face and saw a dot of moisture there. She shouldn't be crying now. What was she crying about? Was she crying about the face that people's lives were in danger or was she crying about her own life? She didn't know what to do. Both things were valuable. If she handed herself over, she didn't know whether they would kill her and activate the bombs after they killed her. She did not want to hand herself over. She was not a giver-upper and she was not going to start now. She was tough, smart, confident, and a fighter. She tucked the paper into her pocket, took hold of the gadget, and walked out of the museum.

Raimundo was pacing back and forth as he waited for Kimiko to come out or for the museum to blow up. He looked up when saw the door opening and Kimiko coming out.

"Oh," he said as he spread his arms out and hugged Kimiko, "thank goodness you're okay."

"The bomb was a fake," Kimiko said as she held up the gadget. The four red zeros still there.

"Oh," Raimundo said, "well good."

Kimiko gulped down and took a deep breath. She held up the piece of paper, "this came along with it," she said as she handed it to Raimundo.

Raimundo took it and read the note. Once he did, he looked up at Kimiko and said, "no."