Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Past and Present. Enjoy the 1800-word chapter. I don't own Samurai Jack, Genndy Tartakovsky, Warner Bros, and Adult Swim do.
"So, you know where we are headed, old man?" Kishi asked as the armored apprentice stood by Jack as they were at a food market, Kishi knew better then to buy food from the stands and smirked as Jack looked over a bunch of sushi like food from a stand.
"Is that even any good?" Ashi asked as Kishi shrugged as Jack picked one up.
"Yes, it is indeed good." Kishi watched as Jack ate the food only to have his head turn into a fish.
"Hey sensei?" Jack turned to face him and Ashi as Kishi retracted his mask to speak.
"Yes, Kishi?" Kishi smiled before speaking.
"Should we order some CHICKEN?" Jack growled in anger as Kishi rocked back and forth on his heels, his arms crossed behind his back as the apprentice simply smiled at his teacher's freak-out.
"Why does he hate chicken?" Ashi whispered as Kishi smiled and leaned over.
"He was turned into a chicken once, never got over the experience, hated chicken ever since because of it, I tease him about it from time to time." Jack finally turned around before Kishi sealed his mask back up.
"Don't bring that up, Kishi, it brings back memories I don't want to think about yet again." Kishi turned to see Jack walk towards a massive alien camel, he turned to Ashi and spoke.
"I'll wait on top of the camel, you go with Jack, my armor can keep me cool anyway." Ashi nodded as Kishi activated the jets on his armor before flying up to land on top of the massive alien like camel as he sat down on the camel and turned on the heat vision on his helmet to stare into the camel as Kishi used his elemental powers to keep himself cool by forming a layer of ice over his armor before his visor saw a group of tiger soldiers surrounding Jack and Ashi as Kishi began to think about his options.
"They can't be looking to kill Jack, can they? Kishi used his jet boots to hover down before groaning as he read the writing on their shirts.
"Die Samurai Jack, I really do hate idiots like this." Kishi groaned before flying a few feet back before crashing through the glass and sending groups of the soldiers flying as he landed and unsheathed his sonic swords before turning to Jack as he flipped the swords into a reverse grip, making a x.
"So, does it always have to be people trying to kill us?" Kishi's helmet lenses turned red as Kishi turned to Jack as he spoke.
"I'm working on a plan; do you have one yet?" Kishi turned to Ashi as both spoke up, Kishi's tone was expressed by the intimidating voice of his helmet.
"Kill them all." Kishi leapt at the tiger soldiers as they drew batons.
Jack kicked a group of the tiger like soldiers back and looked behind himself to see Kishi cutting down the soldiers ruthlessly with bursts of gunfire and sword slashes as Ashi broke necks and bones with her Kusarigama as Jack was shocked to see them both cut down their enemies with such ruthlessness as Jack merely aimed to take them down without killing them as Kishi tossed the last of his group out the window before Ashi uppercut her enemy into the ceiling and into the sky.
"Least those fools learned never to fight us again." Kishi said as he sheathed his swords, both he and Ashi were covered in blood before Kishi froze himself before heating the ice which turned into water and cleaned off his armor as he did the same to Ashi, making sure not to burn her by accident as Kishi turned to Jack who looked around the camel in shock.
"This is how things are for me and Ashi, Jack, you don't take lives, we do, it's how we are." Kishi leapt off the camel and into the sand as Ashi used her weapon to swing down, leaving Jack to stand in place in shock before he regained his senses and jumped into the sand to follow the couple as Kishi looked at his robotic arm as two plates on Kishi's armored shoulders slide open to launch 2 small drones which flew off at sonic speeds and kicked up dust in their wake.
"I'm not coming with you." Jack turned to speak as Kishi walked past him into the desert.
"Why and what are those?" Kishi turned to face him.
"Their trackers, I want to find my brother." Jack leapt in front of his apprentice as Kishi looked Jack in the eye.
"I am not coming with you, it is your destiny to defeat Aku, I need to stop my brother, if he survives then he will just rebuild everything Aku has done to this planet." Ashi cleared her throat as she spoke up as well.
"I have to agree but on another problem, the cult my mother belonged to, it worships Aky and it's the size of a small army, if they aren't wiped out then their just escapes to cause even more trouble upon the world and I will not let that happen." Jack looked at both teens as Kishi turned to Ashi.
"My brother will head to your cult, he needs more soldiers and if your cult is as strong as you say he will want their power for Aku's army." Jack was about to respond to the two teens when the sand picked up, Kishi's helmet kept the sand out of his face but Ashi had to shield her face with her hands as Jack decided to speak up as he shielded his face.
"We need to find shelter." Kishi and Ashi nodded.
(five minutes later)
Ashi brushed the sand out of her eyes as Jack and Kishi walked up behind her.
"I see something." Kishi followed Jack and Ashi into what appeared to be a massive building, Kishi's armor confirmed it to be a prison rather than a building.
"This was a ship; my armor is still patching into it to find out what the ship was for in the first place." Kishi looked around as the night vison on his helmet turned on, bathing the room in a red glow as Kishi turned on the wings under the cape on his armor, lifting him into the air before Ashi easily vault up to his level.
"I don't know about you, Jack, but this shelter feels more like a prison to me." Jack was about to answer when a leech like creature landed on Ashi and bit her, leaving a green bite.
"Ashi!" Kishi and Jack cut the creature to ribbons as Kishi crushed the remains under his boot and burned it as Jack sucked out the poison.
"You ok, Ash?" Kishi asked as he helped her to his feet.
"Yes, thank you."
(Forest, just outside Temple of Aku.)
Deathblow growled as he walked through the forest, his eyes had been slightly repaired so he could see but his injuries and self-repair function had mutated his body further.
"You will die for trespassing on sacred ground!" Deathblow turned to see that 2 of the cultists he had been seeking were behind him.
"No, I won't." He held up his blade which was engulfed in the same magic Aku had.
"We will talk."
(Prison ship)
Kishi, along with Jack and Ashi heard the creature and decided to run to the door.
"Where is it!?" Kishi asked as the ran to the location of the door only to realize that the door had vanished.
"It's gone, what do we do?" Ashi asked as Jack tried to think up a plan.
"Well, I suppose we try to find a gap in the armor of the ship, it should be ea-…" Kishi was cut off as a giant tail with a stinger on it wrapped around him and lifted him into the air.
"Kishi!" Jack and Ashi cried as the armored apprentice looked down at them.
"Don't worry about me try to find a way ou-…" He was cut off as the monster dragged him further into the ship.
"Damn it!" Ashi cried, slamming her fist into the metal hard enough to dent it.
"Sometimes I wonder how my apprentice stays on your good side." Jack said as he and Ashi tried to figure out where to go next and how to save Kishi.
(Abandoned prison ship)
"Let me go! Oh, you better not be part of what I think your part of!" Kishi cried out as he hacked at the tail with his swords before he was flung into an abandoned room and looked up.
"Oh, you are not serious!" Kishi said as a massive scorpion like monster with traits of some of the deadliest insects leapt down from the ceiling.
"I hate bugs!" Kishi cried out.
Author notes
Ok, this episode is being broken into 2 parts so I can think up more ideas and the story will be going off the episodes after this chapter, meaning the last few episodes and chapters will be way different then they are in the show. Next chapter will be on Sunday. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!
