Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Past and Present. Enjoy the 1000-word chapter. I don't own Samurai Jack, Genndy Tartakovsky, Adult Swim and Warner Bros do.
Kishi cracked his neck as he looked around the desert, he was tired as Ashi could tell by the lenses of his helmet half closed to show his exhaustion as Kishi sat in the sand.
"I am starting to wonder if we are ever going to find Aku, we have been at this ship for nearly a day and it doesn't seem like we are going to be going anywhere for a while." Kishi looked over to see that Ashi was still wearing the black and white robe he had helped make for her in case she needed something to wear into battle.
"Doesn't seem like a bad idea now that the leech monster tried to eat you, now does it, Ash?" Kishi teased as he saw Jack walk over.
"Finally done with getting bug guts off you, old man?" Kishi asked as Jack sat down as well.
"Yes, you should be lucky your armor self-cleans, apprentice." Kishi shrugged.
"It helps, I still wonder about my brother and the Cult of Aku, they haven't shown up since we went to get your sword, it bothers me." Jack nodded before Ashi spoke up as well.
"The longer we don't handle the problem, the bigger it will get." Ashi pointed out as she turned her head to jack.
"You never did talk about your childhood, Kishi told me all about his." Kishi turned his head towards Jack before clearing his throat.
"Why don't I tell her? You need to rest anyway, you can't fight Aku without sleep, old man." Jack was about to object before he looked up to the sky to see that it was nearly evening anyways.
"I suppose you have a point, good night." Kishi didn't know if Jack was truly sleeping or not but he swung his armored head towards Ashi anyways.
"Jack told me about how Aku destroyed everything Jack cared about, his home, his family, anything Jack cared about was destroyed and stripped away from Jack… Just like he did to me." Ashi nodded as Kishi yawned.
"I think we should get some sleep as well, it won't help to be tired if we bump into Aku out in this blasted wasteland at all…. Besides, I am really going to need some sleep to put that whole incident with the scorpion monster behind me." Before Ashi could respond, Kishi was already sleeping on the ground as the apprentice's lenses dimmed as Ashi herself allowed herself to pass out as she tried to think of how tomorrow would be before sleeping.
Kishi awoke to Ashi growling in anger as he looked over at where Ashi was to see her annoyed before noticing Jack was missing.
"Where did the old man go, he left, didn't he?" Ashi scowled at Kishi as he climbed to his feet.
"Relax, I can find out where he went, old man never was good at keeping his tracks hidden as he got older." Kishi said as he scanned the ground with his helmet and pointed at a certain direction.
"He went that way, he left a few hours ago if my armor is correct." Ashi nodded and was gone in a few minutes before Kishi sighed and cracked his knuckles.
"Always have to run off, old man…. Ashi is going to kill him for abandoning us." Kishi sighed as he activated his jet boots and used them to skate off into the desert after Ashi, both unaware they were being followed in the first place.
(Five minutes later)
"Ashi, will you wait up?" Kishi said as he finally caught up to his girlfriend as he skated next to her as they continued to search for Jack.
"I can't believe he just…. Just…. Just ran off without telling us at all where he was going or what he was going to do, it annoys me so much!" Kishi was glad he wasn't the cause of the girl's rage as they headed deeper into the desert.
"I think he's this way, the scanner is showing… Whoa." Kishi said as he allowed the jet boots to cut out and gently skid him to a stop as Kishi and Ashi looked at a massive junkyard of massive robots about the size of skyscrapers.
"Either Jack was busy this morning or we are way over our heads with dealing with whatever this thing is that did that." Ashi slid down the hill as Kishi watched her before sighing and sliding down after her as Ashi climbed up one of the robotic bodies as Kishi flew up the body and landed on the top of it.
"I don't think even Jack could destroy this many robots or more importantly robots of this size." Kishi looked down and saw a broken pillar like object in the middle of the scrap yard.
"What the…" Kishi said as Ashi was already leaping from machine to machine as Kishi slowly followed her, taking time to look around the junkyard as he leapt from machine head to machine head.
"This doesn't make any logical sense at all." Kishi muttered under his breath as he flew down and landed on the ground as Ashi did the same.
"Old man!" Kishi shouted as Ashi spotted Jack as he turned around.
"Kishi, Ashi?" Kishi and Ashi crossed their arms, Jack could see neither was amused by his actions in the morning.
"Good teachers don't bail on their students and friends." Kishi sneered under his breath as Ashi crossed her arms as well.
"And you never said anything about what you planned to do, all that trust and friendship and you abandon us as soon as we can't do anything?" Jack was about to speak when a massive black monster appeared.
"Aku!" Kishi and Jack yelled as Ashi stared on in shock.
"Aku…" Aku rose to his full height and spoke.
"Samurai Jack, it is time to die!"
Author notes
Ok, this chapter is shore because next chapter will be nothing but fighting, also, there will be 2 final chapters, the next one and then the ending. I left a poll on my profile for you guys to vote on how the story should end, either vote or tell me in the reviews. Next chapter will be on Friday. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!
