Disclaimer: Xiaolin Showdown is a product of Kids WB and Cartoon Network so I don't own it. I'm simply going to use its characters to entertain myself and others through the power of fan fiction that is all.
Summary: This is what I think Xiaolin Showdown would be like if it were mixed with Code Lyoko. Jack Spicer was browsing the internet one day when he stumbled upon a mysterious e-mail that told him to upload a virtual world onto his laptop, which he decided to do because he had nothing better to do. After booting up the program he finds a mysterious fish boy. Deciding to find out more about him, Jack attempts to bring him to reality. When everything starts to get out of hand Jack must find help from three of the most unlikely sources. Jack, Raimundo, Kimiko, Clay, and Omi must now band together to destroy the corrupt virus program named W.U.Y.A.
Note: Most of the words typed in italics represent Jack or another person talking to someone either through cell phones or the supercomputer. The italics at the end represents Raimundo's thoughts.
Chpt. 10: Like Mice
Once back in school after Spring Break, (refer to last chapter), the group returned to their regular class schedule. Jack, Kimiko, and Raimundo were now in grade nine, with Clay now being in tenth, and were seated in first period science with their teacher Mrs. Hertz. The group of four had recently celebrated Omi's quote/unquote birthday, and Jack was still searching for the key to materialization.
"Class," the grey-haired woman began, "today we will be having a new student joining us. He recently transferred from a school in New York. Please welcome Mr. Jermaine Jordan to our class. Come on in, dear." She kindly waved for the young African American lad to step foot before the class.
He walked in confidently enough and and gave a small smile at his new fellow classmates.
"Why don't you tell us a bit about yourself dear?" Mrs. Hertz said as she smiled warmly at the boy.
"Um, okay. I'm 15, a Scorpio, my favorite color is brown, I like getting to know new people, and I absolutely love basketball!" he told the other students.
Unlike other days, they actually seemed interested. For one, it wasn't everyday a new student came along, and two, the longer he talked about himself, the less time Mrs. Hertz had to teach.
"Wonderful, Mr. Jordan. I believe there is an empty seat next to Ashley, so you may sit there if you wish. Please introduce yourself, Ms. Spicer, then the rest of the class shall do the same, one by one." the teacher said while adjusting her glasses just a tad. The all-of-a-sudden perky blonde quickly complied.
"Hi there, Jermaine, I'm Ashley Spicer if you didn't already know. I'm by far the most popular girl in school and I'm willing to let you hang with me! You'd do well to take me up on my offer."
"Okay," Jermaine answered simply, "Good to know I'm making friends already."
"Now then, everyone else please go around the room and introduce yourselves to our new addition, once that's done we have an important lesson to cover." Mrs. Hertz instructed, now shifting her attention to the chalkboard and beginning to write a scientific formula on the blank surface. "Hmm, Kimiko, you start us off."
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"If I didn't know any better, I'd say Ashley has a crush on the new guy." Kimiko said after class had let out.
"Well that's good news for me," said Raimundo, "now she might be too distracted to notice me."
"Fat chance!" Jack cut in, "If I know my sister, she'll be all over you in no time."
"Haha, whatever dude. See ya later!"
With that, the three students split up and went to their respective second periods. Jack had geography with Mr. Fumet, Raimundo and Clay had art class with Mr. Chardin, and Kimiko took Spanish, wanting to master a third language, with Mr. Havier.
Kimiko was making her way through the hallways just fine, watching other stdents scamper on to class after deciding they had spent enough time chatting in the halls. Apparently, something absolutely fascinating had caught her attention for the next thing she knew, she had bumped into someone and her books were scattered across the floor.
"Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to!"
"It's okay, chill. I wasn't really paying attention to where I was going either, so it's not entirely your fault. Kimiko Tohomiko, right?" the other person piped up. The girl stood up and noticed that the person she had knocked over was Jermaine.
"Uh, yeah. Are you lost? I can help you find your class if you are, I'm sure Mr. Havier won't mind if I'm just a little late." she said, giving off a small smile to the taller teen.
"Actually, I'm in Mr. Havier's class this period. I assume you are too? I'd really appreciate it if you could help me."
"No problem, it's the least I could do for knocking you over."
"Cool! Y'know, at first I was a little worried that I ran into you," Jermaine informed her.
"Really? How come?" Kimiko questioned.
"Well, it's not that big a deal, Ashley just told me you had, uh, anger problems." he answered nonchalantly.
"Oh, did she?! Heh heh, that Ashley, such a kidder she is!" Kimiko said, trying to hide her anger while silently swearing revenge on the blonde girl at the same time.
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"So you know English and Japanese?! That's so cool!" Jermaine congratulated Kimiko for knowng the two languages fluently after the second class had ended.
"Thanks. My dad taught me Japanese while I was still young. I thought it'd be good to learn at least three languages 'cause you never know when you'll need it." Kimko replied.
"Amazing. I know a little German, though I'm not very good at it. And I tried learning French once, but that was a big failure. I figured I had a good chance at learning Spanish though." Jermaine told her.
"Good to hear," began Kimiko, "listen, I'm gonna go ahead and join Rai and the others. I'll see ya at in the gym and at lunch, 'kay?"
"Okay, see ya then Kim." Jermaine replied before walking to the gym area.
"Well, I see you and the new guy are getting along just fine," Jack smirked, coming from the direction Kimiko was currently heading.
"Oh, be quiet Jack. It's not like I have a crush on the guy or anything." Kimiko said, a slight blush forming on her face at the word 'crush'.
"If you did, we all know Raimundo would be sad to hear that, Ashley would be mad to hear that, and Kitt would be glad to hear that." Jack told her.
"Hm? What's Kitt got to do with this?" the short girl asked.
"I overheard them talking in class," Jack said, "It turns out Ashley actually does like Jermaine, and it didn't take much to figure out Kitt's jealous of him." he paused for a brief moment, "I just realized that I haven't checked in with Omi in a while. Care to join me on my way to see him?"
"Sure, we've got time to kill before Coach Guan's class starts." Kimiko stated before turning the next corner with her genius friend.
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Raimundo and Clay were already in the gym and had already changed into their workout clothes. The sat in the old bleachers and watched while the other students came in and changed as well. After a few moments, Ashley, Kitt, Ten, and Jermaine all walked into the gym together.
"That's the new guy I've been telling you about. The one next to Kitt." Raimund pointed out.
"Oh, so that's the guy you say Ashley seems to have taken a likin' too. Looks like you're in the clear then partner. With this new guy around Ashley just may forget all about you." the cowboy said.
"Let's hope so." Raimundo replied.
"What's up?"
"Gah!" Raimundo screemed, noticing Jermaine was suddenly next to him, "Where'd you come from?"
"Obviously, from over there." he replied, pointing over to Ashley and her crew. Ashley waved and gave a cheerful smile, while Kitt shot Jermaine an annoyed look. Ten just stood there, unaware of what was going on.
"Nice to finally meet ya in person. The name's Clay Bailey." Clay said, extending a hand.
"Cool, I'm Jermaine Jordan. The pleasure's all mine." he replied accepting the hand. "Kimiko's told me a lot about you two, especially you, Raimundo."
"Oh, really?" said a skeptical Rai, "What exactly did she say?"
"Oh, nothing too important, but from what I did hear, it seems that Kimiko likes you... alot I might add. Now, I'm generally a nice guy, so I'll give you a warning." Jermaine said, looking rather serious.
"A warning? What the heck are you talking about, dude?" said a confused Raimundo.
"You're not the only one here who likes Kimiko. If you're gonna do somethin' you better do it soon, 'cause Jermaine Jordan waits for no one." the dark-skinned youth said. With that said, he leapt off of the bleachers and returned to Ashley and her crew, but not before turning to give Raimundo a competitive smirk.
"Clay, what the heck just happened?" Raimundo asked.
"I believe you just got called out partner."
"Alright class, listen up!" Coach Guan shouted over the noisy bunch of students, "Today we'll be playing a nice, friendly game of basketball. Wait a minute, where are Spicer and Tohomiko?"
"Perhaps Kimiko's giant head got stuck somewhere and Jack's helping her out." Ashley joked.
"Hey, Ash, that's not cool." Jermaine said, giving her a look that made her instantly shut up.
"Well, where ever they are, they're late. Anyway, go ahead and pick your teams, Pedrosa, I want you and the new kid to be team captains." Coach Guan instructed.
"If you say so coach, but remember, no taking that back in the future." Raimundo said while running down the bleachers.
"Sweet, let's go!" Jermaine said energetically.
No one seemed to notice that the gym doors suddenly began surging with a mass amount of purple electricity.
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"Jack, I can't believe you made me late!" Kimiko yelled, taking the shortcut through the courtyard to the gym.
"Don't pin this on me, you didn't even have to come with me to the dorm!" Jack yelled back, following closely behind.
"I only came 'cause you invited me to!"
"Well at least we don't have to worry about any W.U.Y.A. attacks soon. Omi said things were all clear in the Ice Barrier and Mountain sectors."
Once the two had successfully reached the other side of the academy, they peered inside the gym doors to see their class playing a game of basketball. It seemed as if the teams were divided between one lead by Raimundo and the other Jermaine.
"Great," sighed Kimiko, "they've already started without us."
"Well, maybe we can still get in if we - GAH!!!!" Jack screamed in agony. The moment he touched the gym doors he was electrocuted rather painfully and was tossed away from the doors which now visibly surged with purple electricity.
"Oh, Jack! Are you okay?" Kimiko asked, helping the boy off the ground.
"I'm fine, but it looks like I was wrong about not having to worry about W.U.Y.A. attacks," Jack sighed, "Let's go ahead and call the others."
"I doubt they'll pick up at the moment. You know how competitive Raimundo gets. Just leave a message so we can hurry to the lab." Kimiko suggested.
"But W.U.Y.A. can't possibly want to do something as simple as just trap them in there." Jack mused silently. He quickly left a message on both Rai and Clay's cell phones before sprinting to his lab alongside Kimiko.
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"Might as well give up, Pedrosa! It's the third quarter and your teams already down by ten points!" Jermaine said, giving Raimundo a cocky smirk.
"That's what you think! We haven't started playing for real yet!" Raimundo replied, giving off the same smirk as Jermaine.
Coach blew the whistle, and Jermaine took off towards Raimundo's and his teams goal. Clay tried to block his path, but Jermaine faked left and passed it to Kitt. Growing frustrated, Raimundo turned his attention toward the orange haired teen and was shocked to see he no longer held the basketball in his possession. What he did see was Ten pass the ball back to Jermaine, who gave a cocky smirk of victory before shooting the ball into the hoop.
Just then, the weirdest thing happened; the scoreboard, the lights, and everything else electrical in the gym shut off and all the light bulbs blew to shards!
"Ahh! What is going on?!" Ashley, and all the other girls who had decided not to play, screamed.
"You don't think?" Clay began.
"Definitely W.U.Y.A." Rai finished. "Let's give Jack and Kim a call." He and his Texan friend dashed over to the bleachers and dove into the pockets of their school pants to find that a message had already been left on each of their cell phones. Raimundo quickly checked his.
"Rai, it's me, Jack. If you haven't already figured this out yet, W.U.Y.A.'s launched another attack. Whatever you do, don't let anybody try to open the doors! There's a powerful electric current that could wind up shocking you to death. We haven't quite figured out what W.U,Y.A.'s planning, but you know it can't be good. Kimiko and I have already took off for the lab. Make sure to call us as soon as you get this message."
"Ah, great!" Raimundo groaned hanging up, "First, I lose to the new guy, and now W.U.Y.A. want's to trap us in here. She must've somehow knew we'd all be here, and wanted to trap us while getting rid of Omi!"
"Yeah, but thanks to Kimiko and Jack being late, we got the advantage of surprise." Clay concluded. Raimundo nodded, turning back to the other side of the gym, to see Coach Guan slamming the phone down on his desk.
"Blasted phone's not working! Jordan, go get the Headmaster!" he shouted.
Jermaine turned to leave from the gym only to be stopped by Raimundo.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." he warned.
"You're not the boss of me, man. What? You jealous cause the power went out right when my team was kicking your butt? If I were you, I'd be thankful something like that happened." Jermaine said in a rather mean spirited tone.
"Look dude, I'm only trying to stop you from making a big mistake!" Rai retorted.
"Whatever man, now excuse me, you're in my way." Jermaine pushed Raimundo out of his way and proceeded to grab the doors handles only to scream out in pain as the purple volts of electricity jolted violently throughout his body.
Raimundo quickly slammed his body against the other's and knocked him away from the door.
"You okay dude?" he asked, offering a hand.
"Ugh, yeah. How'd you know that'd happen anyway? You psychic or something?" Jermaine asked.
"Nah, I just got my sources." Raimundo smirked.
By the time this had taken place, Clay had already warned Coach, who, in turn, warned the other students, about the dangerous electricity.
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"Have you found the location of the tower yet?" Kimiko asked, after watching Jack work the supercomputer for several minutes.
"Yeah, that was no problem. It's Omi that I'm having trouble finding. He better not have run off on his own again!" Jack said growing more and more impatient by the second. So far he had no luck in the Mountain's or Ice Barrier, but that was to be expected. Now he was searching the Forest. "Kimiko, I'm gonna go ahead and transfer you. The activated tower's in the Desert sector."
The girl nodded, and headed to the scanner room where she would be virtualized.
"Transfer, Kimiko; scanner Kimiko; virtualization!"
The girl landed gracefully on her feet in the arid sector and searched her surroundings.
"Wow, Jack!" she exclaimed, "This is the first time you've virtualized one of us directly in front of the activated tower!"
"It's too bad Omi's not there. I just scanned the Forest sector and there's no trace of him. You've got to go search for him on your own, meanwhile, I'll try contacting Clay and Raimundo."
Kimiko nodded at her orders and choose to take the nearest path to her right.
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"Hello? Jack? Are you any closer to deactivating the tower?" Rai asked while Clay listened.
"Unfortunately, no. Kimiko was right in front of the tower, but we have no idea where Omi is. She's off looking for him now." he answered.
"What about this attack?" Clay question, "Do you have any idea on what W.U.Y.A.'s trying to do to us this time?"
"My guess is she hacked into the school's computer to see our schedules and saw this was the only class we had together and wanted to trap us in here."
"We already figured that." Raimundo explained.
"That's not all, according to my supercomputer, there's a large amount of electricity centered around the gymnasium. The most likely thing is W.U.Y.A.'s trying to blow up the gym, with you guys in it!"
Clay and Rai gasped.
"Well that's just lower than a snake's belly! Trying to trap up like we're mice!" Clay said.
"How much time do you think it'll take Kimiko to find Omi?" Rai asked.
"Hopefully not too long. It'd be a shame to have you guys blow up."
"Yeah, I know," Rai stated, "And about Omi, you don't think that..."
There was silence on the other, then...
"Don't even joke like that Rai." Followed by Jack hanging up.
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It appeared Kimiko had ran into a bit of trouble. She was now being followed by a squadron of Hornets that fired mercilessly at her. She was stung in the back by one laser blast, but nimbly managed to dodged the other two. She took out two of her golden sparrows and set them aflame.
"You want some of this, bug brains?! Well come get it! Arrow Sparrows!!" She angrily tossed the two flaming projectiles at the insect monsters and killed the two she was aiming for. Without giving the third time to recover, she hit it with another burning sparrow in the center of the eye of W.U.Y.A.
"Kimiko, up ahead I need you take the path to the right!" Jack's voice echoed, "It's faint, but I'm picking up a signal from Omi. There should be some sort of platform ahead of you."
"I see it!" Kimiko replied after running for like a minute, "But that's not all. There's some sort fire orb thing. Is it some sort of new monster?"
She crept closer and closer to the glowing red sphere and noticed something that looked like a hand. Omi's hand.
"Oh!" she gasped, "Jack, it looks like Omi's trapped inside that thing!"
"Not only that, but the electric field around the gym is growing wider and wider each passing second. Pretty soon the whole school will blow!!!" he yelled. "Argh! Look's like W.U.Y.A's got us all trapped like mice today!!"
"Can you get him out?" Kimiko asked.
"I don't know... and even if I did, it'd require time that we don't have!!" The genius angrily banged his fists against the keyboard which pulled up a random screen that explained Omi's Water Clone powers. "H- huh? Wait a second, Omi can clone himself!"
"Yeah, but how can that help us?" Kimiko asked.
"Simple, if I can hack into those powers, I can create a clone of Omi and possibly confuse the monster!" He waisted no time in frantically typing on the keyboard, successfully making a clone of Omi.
The Guardian monster then began to wiggle a little and tried to absorb the fake Omi to go along with the real one. Apparently the Guardian didn't have the capacity to hold more than one being at a time, because seconds after the fake Omi was absorbed, the Guardian exploded.
"Ugh, my head. What has been going on? The last thing I remember is coming to the Desert sector and seeing this glowing orb." Omi said, groggily.
"Now's not the time to explain. Clay and Raimundo are trapped in the gym that's about to explode any minute now!"
"Then let us hurry! Kimiko, lead me to the tower!" Omi commanded.
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By this time, purple sparks of electricity were flying in every random direction of the gym. Everyone was too busy screaming their heads off to notice the bolt of thunder that struck one of the light beams on the ceiling. Unfortunately, Raimundo was standing right under it.
"Hey, look out man!"
Raimundo found himself tackled to the ground and was somewhat angry to see that Jermaine was the one who did the tackling.
"Hey! What's the -"
Jermaine cut him off by pointing towards the light beam the had nearly smashed his head open.
"Oh, guess I owe you then." Raimundo said, nervously.
"Nah, you saved me already. We're even," Jermaine responded, "Look, I'm sorry about before. We kinda got off on the wrong foot. Wanna start over?" He reached out his hand to Raimundo.
"Actually, I'd be relieved to redo this whole day." Raimundo chuckled, taking Jermaine's hand and getting to his feet.
Coincidentally, Omi had just typed in code XANADU.
"Reverse Rebirth Activation!"
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"Class," Mrs. Hertz began once again, ""today we will be having a new student joining us. He recently transferred from a school in New York. Please welcome Mr. Jermaine Jordan to our class. Come on in, dear. Why don't you tell us a bit about yourself ?"
"Um, okay. I'm 15, a Scorpio, my favorite color is brown, I like getting to know new people, and I absolutely love basketball!" Jermaine explained for the second time.
"Y'know," Kimiko turned around, whispering to the two boys behind her, "you and Jermaine have a lot in common Rai. Maybe you should get to know him a little better."
"Oh, yeah, we got plenty in common Kimiko. A lot more than you might think." Raimundo answered with a slightly cold tone.
"What's that mean?" Kimiko asked.
"Nothing. I'm sure you'll find out all about it one day." he said coldly again. Jermaine's words seemed to ring in his mind whenever he so much as looked at Kimiko.
'You're not the only one here who likes Kimiko. If you're gonna do somethin' you better do it soon, 'cause Jermaine Jordan waits for no one.'
Tbc...
Everyone!!! I'm so sorry I haven't updated in a while! Blame it on writer's block if you want, but it was mostly a computer virus that kept me from doing anything. Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed the chapter, there will be more to come soon. Until then people, review and tell me what liked about this chapter.