Kimiko was enjoying the fresh air while she surfed the net on her PDA; she hoped that there would be nothing to worry about today. That was until she saw a small object flying high in the sky; she recognised that it was not a plane so Kimiko decided to use her mystical artefact.
"Falcon's Eye!" she shouted, using the small eyepiece Shen Gong Wu to view the unidentified flying object.
By its cylindrical shape and reflective coat, Kimiko knew what it was. She clenched her fists tightly.
"No, not this guy again!" she growled.
Kimiko tried to run away, but the spaceship sent out a tractor beam that pulled her towards it. As much as she kicked and screamed, the fire Xiaolin warrior could not break free from the beam of light. A small opening appeared in the ship to let her inside, Kimiko was placed gently in the centre of the vessel's interior that was larger on the inside.
"Hi there, precious," chuckled a familiar voice, she turned around to see Desu who was still in his human form.
Kimiko sighed deeply.
"Well, that's a relief! I thought you would be in the form of some horrible space monster, an appearance like that would suit a jerk like you," she chuckled.
Desu Tubstar threw his arms up in the air.
"Well it's not my fault; I've been too busy lately to change back! That's why I need your help!" he exclaimed.
Kimiko was interested; after all, she did prove that she was better than him in a Xiaolin Showdown.
"Alright, I'm listening. I'll do whatever it is as long as it isn't stealing something," she sighed.
Desu Tubstar smiled and bought an image up on one of his many monitors, it was of a massive figure in full grey armour that exposed no weaknesses. The being was massive; he had four fingered hands that held a mace and a large space gun. The helmet he wore had an opaque black visor that concealed his face, he had a number of extra weapons and a jetpack mounted on his back.
"Shortly after I left Earth, I ran into some Ibbidaoo law enforcers thanks to a little virus you gave me! Luckily I escaped from them by showing them a sachet of salt I found in my pocket, Ibbidaoo hate sodium chloride so they set me free. Later I found that Yolgrag Kuwazir, the jerk you see on the screen, had discovered my real body and threatens to destroy it unless I battle him!" explained Desu.
"Where is this guy anyway?" Kimiko questioned, looking at the foreboding image on the monitor.
Desu changed the image to a picture of the moon, the picture was magnified greatly to show Yolgrag waiting near his sleek arrow shaped space vessel.
"He's on your moon; if he destroys my body he might consider catapulting the moon into your planet! Yolgrag is that sort of person, I think it's because he had problems as a child," Desu replied.
Kimiko's eyes widened, suddenly the mission got very important.
"Okay, I'm in. Maybe we should consider beaming up one of my other friends to help us," the female fire warrior said.
"Don't worry, I'll find a friend for you!" exclaimed Desu.
He briefly disappeared into one of his cupboards and bought out a helmet that appeared to be wrapped in tinfoil, the space thief placed the mysterious headgear on Kimiko's head.
"What the heck is this, is it a bicycle helmet you covered in silver foil? It looks like some kind of bad movie prop!" Kimiko yelled.
"I didn't make it, I stole it!" said Desu, smiling.
Kimiko rolled her eyes as he continued to adjust it.
"What does it do?" she asked.
"It searches your memory for a person you know; it then beams a signal to my teleporter and brings that person over here! It was invented by the mind mages of Tau Bootis; I managed to steal it after I swapped it with a real bicycle helmet wrapped in tinfoil!" Desu answered.
When the device was firmly strapped to her head, the teleporter immediately came to life as it began to bring a person from Kimiko's memory to them. A familiar figure appeared in the teleporter, but when Kimiko saw who it was she gasped in horror.
"No, not Katnappe!" the fire warrior moaned at the figure that materialized.
The talented thief was in her cat costume, meaning that she was looking for something to steal when they teleported her up to the ship. She looked around for a few seconds, dazed and confused. When Katnappe's eyes landed on Kimiko, she immediately got into a fighting position.
"So Xiaolin loser, are you tired of looking for a fight and decided it would be better to bring the fight to you?" asked the female villain, baring her clawed gloves at Kimiko menacingly.
Kimiko ignored Katnappe and turned to Desu, the fire warrior was furious at the reckless space thief.
"What's the meaning of this? I thought that the stupid helmet would beam up one of my friends, not one of my enemies!" yelled Kimiko, getting ready to pull the tinfoil helmet device off her head.
Desu and Kimiko looked back at Katnappe; she had found one of the escape vessels of the thief's ship.
"No, don't use that! It spent me ages to steal it!" moaned Desu, running towards the cat obsessed villainess.
The escape vessel was a humanoid power suit that gave the user amazing strength and agility, Katnappe hopped inside it and smiled at both Kimiko and Desu.
"She's good, she didn't freak out when she saw all this alien technology," giggled Kimiko, Desu glared at the female Xiaolin warrior.
Katnappe pressed a button inside the suit, it teleported her outside the ship. Katnappe waved goodbye at them, but quickly realized she was in outer space and began to shout.
"Don't worry; we're very close to the moon. The weak gravitational pull of it will give her a gentle landing, there's nothing for you or her to worry about…oh, she's your enemy isn't she?" said Desu.
"Just do that memory helmet thing again; maybe it'll beam up someone I can get along with. Make sure it isn't a wild animal too," grumbled Kimiko.
He activated the powers of the alien helmet again, another figure started to materialize in front of them. Kimiko hoped that it was one of the other three Xiaolin warriors.
"Whoa, where am I?" questioned Dojo.
"Well, at least he isn't a villain," whispered Kimiko.
The confused Dojo slithered over to Kimiko; he wanted to ask a lot of questions. Kimiko began to explain as Dojo sat on her shoulder, Desu looked at the fire warrior and smiled.
"Look at that, a mother and child are finally reunited," he sighed.
Dojo and Kimiko looked at Desu.
"Mother and child?" they both asked.
"Yeah, he's your son isn't he? That's what you humans look like in your larval stage," the space thief said, smiling.
Dojo was about to correct the space faring buffoon, but the female fire warrior silenced him.
"Don't bother, he'll be even more of an idiot if he doesn't realize…" whispered Kimiko.
Soon they arrived on the dusty white surface of the moon; they were not far away from the vicious Yolgrag Kuwazir. Before they walked out onto the barren surface, Desu passed Dojo and Kimiko a small collar each. The collars enabled the three of them to breathe by creating an invisible bubble of air around their heads.
"I'll fight Yolgrag first, one of you two or both of you can jump in when the battle seems to be getting ugly," Desu explained to them.
"I don't know, I'd much prefer to watch," chuckled the Xiaolin warrior of fire, making sure the foolhardy space thief did not hear her words.
They continued to bounce along the surface; they came to the edge of the large crater where Yolgrag was waiting for Desu. They quietly peered over to watch the armoured villain; he was carrying the container that held Desu's real body.
"We better jump in there fast, he could just decide to destroy my body if I don't arrive!" whispered Desu, fearing what would happen to his precious true body.
"Get in there then!" Dojo exclaimed, pushing Desu into the crater.
Desu rolled down towards the armoured alien, shouting insults at the Chinese dragon as he got closer and closer to Yolgrag. He stopped when he bumped into the feet of his enemy; Yolgrag Kuwazir looked down at the small man and laughed.
"So, you've finally come to retrieve your real body! I hate it when I find worms like you touching my feet," boomed Yolgrag Kuwazir, pointing an armoured finger at his arch enemy.
Desu Tubstar got to his feet grumbling; he wiped the moon dust from his clothes and looked strait at Yolgrag.
"You're going down Yolgrag, I've fought you many times and I never received a bruise from any fights we've had!" said Desu, smiling at the foreboding menace.
Yolgrag laughed loudly, startling Kimiko and Dojo who were still in hiding.
"That's because you ran away from each one!" roared the armoured villain, making Desu feel very embarrassed.
Desu performed a back flip and jumped backwards, he got out a super cool space sword that he had probably stolen from someone. He twirled the lethal weapon around pathetically, trying to look cool but failing miserably.
"I'll be able to defeat you this time for sure!" he said, striking a manly pose.
Yolgrag outstretched his hand and flicked the small space thief away with his index finger; Desu went flying backwards and smashed into some rocks. He got to his feet, only to realize that his right cheek was massively swollen. Desu began to weep silently as Yolgrag walked menacingly towards him, carrying his massive mace with which he wanted to pound his enemy with.
"Okay, I would like to see him get beaten up, but I don't want him to get killed!" said Kimiko.
The female Xiaolin warrior decided that it would be a good time to rescue the space thief; she leapt into the crater holding the Star Hanabi. Dojo was holding firmly onto her shoulder, he too was frightened of the armoured villain.
"I see your friends are coming to help you, I thought it would be just one person I'd be pounding today!" chuckled Yolgrag Kuwazir, putting his mace away and getting out his space gun.
He fired deadly laser bullets at Kimiko, luckily she gracefully avoided them. She landed gently in front of Yolgrag Kuwazir, the armoured space villain laughed at her.
"Wahoo, Kimiko's here! She'll teach you a lesson for sure!" cheered Desu, wiping the tears from his eyes and forgetting how much his swollen right cheek hurt.
Yolgrag twirled the space gun about in his hand; he walked closer towards the brave female fire warrior.
"So you have a girl who's going to take your place now? You're getting even more pathetic, Desu Tubstar," he chuckled.
Kimiko ran towards Yolgrag, ready to hit him with the strongest punch she could manage to perform. Her fist did not damage the villain at all; she rubbed her bruised knuckles and pointed her Shen Gong Wu artefact at Yolgrag.
"Star Hanabi!" Kimiko yelled, activating the power of the magical star.
The many twirling fireworks the small object sent out disappeared because there was no oxygen on the moon for them to burn, Yolgrag growled as he took a sword from his back and swung it at her. The Xiaolin warrior bounded over the villain and landed behind him, Kimiko would never be able to harm him with all that impenetrable alien armour on his body.
"You can do it Kimiko!" Desu shouted, Yolgrag stared at him and immediately shut him up.
Kimiko was panting; she was getting tired from avoiding Yolgrag's mighty attacks.
"How can I beat him and his stupid armour?" she whispered, Yolgrag seemed to have no weakness.
"I remember now!" yelled Dojo.
Kimiko rapidly jumped out of the way of the shots that Yolgrag Kuwazir fired at her, she turned to Dojo and wondered what he remembered.
"What is it?" Kimiko questioned.
"The Vial of Alkahest! It's a Shen Gong Wu I hid on the moon!" Dojo replied.
Kimiko gave Dojo a strange look.
"How did you get it up here?" she asked.
"I used the Golden Tiger Claws while holding my breath! The Vial of Alkahest contains an enchanted liquid that can dissolve any non magical material; it'll be perfect for melting through his armour!" Dojo answered.
The moon was a fairly small place; Kimiko could easily find a Shen Gong Wu amongst the white dust and rocks. She began to flee the crater, Desu wailed.
"Hey, what are you doing?" he questioned.
"You can keep him busy by running around; I need to find something that can dissolve this guy's armour!" Kimiko replied, waving and smiling as she exited the crater.
Desu screamed as the mighty villain began to chase him about, Yolgrag beat the ground with his mace to make the foolish space thief run quicker.
Kimiko could leap further than she could on Earth, the weak gravity of the moon made travelling a breeze. All that the fire warrior needed to do was to find the vial on the white surface, this task sounded quite easy. Eventually she spotted a shining object inside a small crater; she knew that the item was the Shen Gong Wu that she was searching for. She walked over to the Vial of Alkahest; it was a small blue bottle with a silver lid and a golden spiral design around it. Just as she was about to pick it up, a large boulder was thrown at her. Kimiko rolled out of the way just in time to see who had thrown it at her; it was Katnappe in the power suit she had stolen.
"I'll escape after I melt you, I spotted this Wu first!" said Katnappe.
Kimiko realized that she was holding a Shen Gong Wu; it was the Ruby of Ramses.
"Hey, where did you get the ruby from?" Kimiko asked angrily.
"When you abducted me I was busy raiding the vault back at your temple, I could've grabbed a lot more Shen Gong Wu if you hadn't stopped me!" Katnappe explained.
Kimiko breathed a sigh of relief; it was a good thing the helmet had bought her to the moon before she stole all of their other precious Shen Gong Wu. Both of them dived for the Vial of Alkahest, they touched the object at the same time.
"Looks like it's a showdown! I'll wager my Star Hanabi for your Ruby of Ramses!" shouted Kimiko.
"We'll race to the footprints made by the first man on the moon!" added Katnappe.
The scenery changed, the surface of the moon became covered in many bottomless pits. The footprints were near an American flag in the distance, both competitors readied themselves.
"Gong Yi Tanpai!" they both yelled, starting the Xiaolin Showdown.
They both made a leap forwards, but Katnappe's power suit gave her the advantage. She landed far ahead of Kimiko and laughed, picking up large rocks with the suit's amazing strength. Kimiko jumped over them and got closer to Katnappe, she gasped as she saw Katnappe point the mystical ruby at her.
"Ruby of Ramses!" announced Katnappe.
She used the item's power to toss Kimiko away; the fire warrior landed a few metres behind Katnappe. The cat obsessed villainess jumped away as Kimiko got back on her feet, the female Xiaolin warrior of fire shook her fist at Katnappe.
"Dirty tricks, just what I expected from a fleabag like her!" growled Kimiko, taking a great leap forwards.
Katnappe noticed that her adversary was quickly catching up with her; they were not far away from the footprints now.
"I'm going to be the winner of this game; I'm the one wearing the mighty power suit!" Katnappe cackled.
Kimiko angrily pointed her firework firing Shen Gong Wu at the villainess, supercharging it with her fire element.
"Star Hanabi, Fire!" Kimiko yelled, the flame storm she was supposed to have launched was extinguished by the complete lack of oxygen.
"How pathetic, don't you know that fire can't burn in outer space? This may be a magical showdown, but we still need to respect the laws of physics!" chuckled Katnappe.
Kimiko grit her teeth, she had fallen for the same mistake twice. It was seemingly hopeless, Katnappe was about to get there. Suddenly she stopped, she had halted right near the footprints. The batteries of her power suit had run out, it was impossible for her to move now.
"Luckily I don't run on batteries!" laughed Kimiko, she got to the footprints and ended the showdown.
Kimiko stood holding the Ruby of Ramses and the Vial of Alkahest, she left Katnappe behind.
"Hey, you can't leave me here!" wailed Katnappe.
"Unfortunately I can't, Desu will pick you up soon!" Kimiko said.
The fire warrior arrived at where Desu and Yolgrag were, the armoured villain had the space thief cornered. Desu Tubstar had almost wet himself, the villain was cackling evilly.
"You can't escape, I'll destroy you before I destroy your real body!" he chuckled.
"Vial of Alkahest!" yelled Kimiko, spilling some of the magical liquid on Yolgrag's back to reveal his soft blue skin.
Yolgrag growled when he noticed what she had done, he turned around to face her and readied his gun. Desu winked at Kimiko and jumped onto his back, he began to tickle Yolgrag's pale blue skin. The villain laughed uncontrollably as he tried to get Desu off his back.
"Yolgrag's race is extremely ticklish, this'll teach him a thing or two!" laughed Desu.
"Please, stop it! I'll leave you alone just as long as you stop doing that!" squealed Yolgrag Kuwazir, flailing his arms about.
Desu hopped off his back, when he was not looking Kimiko kicked Yolgrag as hard as she could. The armoured villain went flying into his ship as Desu picked up the container that held his real body, Kimiko and the space thief did a high five.
Eventually the earthling and the space thief were back on the ship, heading to Earth. Desu Tubstar had sent Dojo and Katnappe back home, Kimiko felt relieved.
"At least they'll believe me now that Dojo knows too, they thought I sounded like an idiot when I tried to explain what happened last time!" Kimiko explained.
Desu smiled sheepishly at her.
"Well, I erased their memories before I sent them back… I didn't want them blabbering all about me and the space adventure we had," he whispered.
Kimiko growled in anger, but she did not think that it was so important.
"At least we stopped Yolgrag destroying the moon and your real body! What does your real body look like anyway?" questioned Kimiko.
Desu blushed and decided to explain it in his own words, it would be less embarrassing than showing her.
"It's kind of orange, furry and…pretty short," he said.
Kimiko began to giggle, she knew that he was telling the truth by his look of sheer embarrassment.
Trivia: Tau Bootis is a star system in the constellation of Bootis, the bear watcher.
Alkahest is a legendary liquid that was sought by alchemists, it was a solvent that could dissolve anything.