Ohayo!
...Sooo how's school and stuff with everyone? It's like, crazy, right?...
Well, it's wracking my brian, but somehow I still find time to type! Awesomnessss...
Anyway, I'm rambling. Thanks for the recent reviews Zoerz, Bittersweet49, Xiaolin Fan, Rokunami 123, 312EmoGirl, Micook and VanillaStratos. You guys seem as if you're freaking out a little with all these cliffhangers _~ I try hard not to be a cruel writer, but any who I'm glad you're enjoying it! So, partake dear readers in this adventurous episode of:
The Xiaolin Chronicles
Previously on the Xiaolin Chronicles: Rika and Jack, with Dojo and Master Sir Bartholomew's help, are reclaiming the pieces of the Sands of Time and rescuing the other monks from the Heylin enemies ruling under Chase Young. After they saved Raimundo from his torturous entrapment and returned him to Bartholomew's temple, he wakes up and begins strangling Rika!
Episode 28: Death Plots!
"YOU TRAITOR!" He screamed. "I'LL KILL YOU MYSELF!"
"Ahh! Don't snap her neck!" Jack hollered. "She's a good guy, she saved you!"
"So what?" Raimundo retorted. "She's given the whole world to evil! She betrayed all of us to join Chase, and now millions have died and everything has become a living hell!"
Now Rika began trying to pry his hands off of her throat. "R-Raimundo… p-please…"
Jack started to try to pull Raimundo away, but he didn't move an inch.
"Yikes!" Dojo cried. "Pipe, down, Rai! We have a plan to make everything normal again!"
"You think we stand a chance against Chase Young right now?" Raimundo snapped.
"Y-yes…" Rika choked out. "I wouldn't have saved you if I-I didn't have a p-plan." She was turning blue.
Raimundo's ferociously fowl grimace full of malice and disgust was more frightening to her than the fact that he was choking the life out of her. But after that last comment, she watch his features revert and his grip loosen.
He finally let her go and she fell back gasping for air and coughing.
"Rika!" Jack aided her.
Raimundo stood up, watching the two. "I can't believe it. I can't kill you, even after everything you've done. It's against my morals." He clenched his fists. "Dammit!"
"Raimundo, you have made a wise decision, though." Bartholomew spoke. "If you didn't let go your self, I was going to chop your arms off." He told him with a smile.
"Whatever." Raimundo grumbled.
"R-Rai…" Rika gasped. "I'm so sorry. I know what I did was wrong, and I'd give anything to take it back right now, but we have to do some things first."
"Where are the others?"
"You're the first one we saved." Jack explained, "We need your help getting the others."
"You're the leader, it was appropriate to retrieve you first." Rika enlightened more as she stood up, rubbing her throat.
"What exactly do you intend to do against Chase?"
"We're going to get all of the Sands of Time together that the Heylin bosses have and go back to find out how to stop Chase Young with Shisui's help. Maybe we can even revert all the things that have happened so far if we can find out how to stop him."
"Idiot!" Raimundo snarled. "Do you know how risky that is? If Chase catches us, he'll kill the others and our families!"
"It's the only option we have! I have come up with a plan to stay under the radar, Chase won't know what's going on until it's too late, but we have to move fast. You have to trust me."
"Trust YOU?" He barked. "You've gotta be kidding me."
"Raimundo, I wouldn't have saved you if I didn't think you would trust me. We're the only ones who can save Kimiko and Clay and Jaku and Omi. We can stop all the terrible things that have happened so far happen. Please, I need your help."
Raimundo was mute for a moment. "Dammit…" He growled. "How do you expect us to do anything? We can't remember our training, I think my elemental power was wind, because Chase called me the Xiaolin Dragon of Wind, but I don't know how to conjure that kind of element!"
"I wouldn't worry too much about that," Bartholomew alleged, "Chase Young is using a dangerous amount of that power. Some of that magic of his could be broken if you truly try with all of your soul to bat against it!"
"Hmph…" Raimundo was not going to admit he was comfortable with this plan. "So, where are we headed next?"
"You will stay here!" Bartholomew yelled. "In your condition, you would be f no use and just reopen your wounds."
"We'll get Jaku next. If he can remember his training, he can heal you completely."
"No need to come after me."
The voice echoed throughout the temple, and everyone turned to the front door to see…
"Jaku." Rika couldn't move. Jaku was standing there, with a soldier beside him.
"You're alive! And, here with a…?"
"You creep!" Raimundo snapped. "Why are you here with that thing? Are you working for Chase?"
"Nope, I escaped!"
"Then they know you've gone! They'll kill Kimiko and the others you moron!"
"No they won't!" The soldier took her hat off. "I made a double using the magic from the other dimension, so Katnappe thinks that the copy is him!"
"Alice?" Raimundo guessed. "H-how..?"
"I'll explain later, we have to go save Omi next, right now!"
"Sit down, Pedrosa."
Raimundo listened and Jaku went to work. He placed his hand on his forehead, and the slash across his face was completely healed. Then he placed his hands on his shoulders, and the cuts and scars were gone from his arms and torso as well.
"Whoa." Jack commented.
"How did you get your powers back?" Rika asked.
"Alice helped me. It's not the safest way, but when you're in danger, it'll all come back to you if you believe that it will!"
"What is this, Peter Pan?" Jack scoffed. "'Gotta believe in fairies and pixie dust magic? We don't have time for all of that!" He grinned as he held up a walkie-talkie. "We gotta stick to full-on tangible, hard core machinery here!"
"And we will, but it's a relief to hear that maybe we can get our elements back." Rika noted.
"Let's get to Omi," Raimundo headed for the door. "I don't want to know what he's having to deal with right now."
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Omi's eyes widened. "No. Anything but that!"
The creature leapt at him with great ferocity, and several more followed.
"Eyaaaahhh!" Omi ran around the maze, trying to avoid the animals that were chasing after him.
Bean cackled as he watched the scene from above. "This is just too much! I got the little runt fighting monster and demons in my chambers, and he runs from a pack of squirrels!"
"Sir, it's time for your meditation in the armored suit." A soldier approached his chair.
"Yes, I'll git right ta that," He decided as he arose. "This blending process gone take a few hours. I want Mano in charge while I'm incapacitated."
"Got it, sir."
Outside of the base, there was an unusual amount of slaves working in the smithery, forging heavy weapons for Bean's business.
"In 10 minutes, Hannibal Bean is going to go into a hibernation for a few hours." Alice explained.
"What for?" Raimundo asked.
"He'll become 'one' with his black armor, making him stronger and more unique with it on." Rika added, "His eyes will temporarily be off of Omi and that will be our opportunity to infiltrate like we discussed, steal the piece from his treasure trove, and replace the real Omi with a phony robot."
"Still making chameleo-bots, Spicer?" Rai alleged.
"Only for this occasion. I wouldn't try to redo a plan that failed already on you guys!"
"Hey! Hush up over there!" A soldier snapped at them.
They continued to pretend they were passing silver amongst each other.
"Go into soldier mode, Jack!" Rika whispered.
"You got it…" Jack slinked away.
"Let's get to work, team."
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Omi groaned as he sat down on the wooden stool.
"My feet ache, I've been running for days!" He carped to no one. "I wonder if my friends are ok."
"Sure we are!"
Omi turned around. "Jaku? H-how did you-! Why did you-!"
"We'll explain later, c'mere!" Jaku grabbed him by the shoulders and yanked him into the corner of the room.
"Whoa!"
"The cameras don't see over in this spot, so we'll have this guy step into the spot light for you!" Jaku presented the Omi-bot walking towards them.
"A robot? Jack Spicer is helping us defeat the forces of evil? Again?"
"Only because he wants the world for himself. Listen, we're using the Changing Chopsticks so I can hide you in my pocket while we simply stroll out, got it?"
"Wait, I must be certain this robot is efficient enough to be my copy!" Omi speculated it for a moment. "What is your opinion on squirrels?" He asked the thing.
"Eek, squirrels are terrifying little things!" The robot shrieked.
"Yeah, he's good enough."
Jaku smiled. "Changing Chopsticks!"
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Raimundo jumped out of the treasure trove, stepping over the unconscious soldiers he had knocked out previously.
"I got the piece of the Sands of Time!" He whispered into his walkie-talkie.
"Be carful, Rai!" Rika answered back. "Hannibal Beam is-!"
"Well, well, well, I thought I smelled a rat."
Raimundo backed away from the army of soldiers that were standing behind the black armored villain.
"Nice to see yah, Raimundo. I must say, I didn't expect to see you here. Come to congratulate me on my dominion of this place?"
"As if!" Pedrosa barked. "You're just one of Chase Young's lackeys now! Some Heylin master you turned out to be, you expired bean!"
"I don't think you understand the situation you're in right now, boy!" Bean held up his up black aura of a sword. "You are a weak slave from Wuya's sector, and I am a powerful monarchy! Now, prepare to be slaughtered you piece a dirt!"
With that said, Bean charged at Raimundo.
"S-Sword of the Storm!" He yelled. He twisted the blade around in his hands, causing gusts of wind that blew the giant black knight back into his men.
Raimundo stared at the golden rapier with glee. "Whoa… sweet!"
"You damn lil' runt, you gone pay fur that!" Bean leapt at him this time, giving more speed to his first attack as he whacked his blade into Raimundo's. They batted blades for a while, but Raimundo was getting exhausted, and Bean could tell.
"Ha! My armor gives me limitless power! You don't stand a chance, turn back around now and maybe I'll spare your pathetic life."
"F*** you, yah talking fruit. I'll squish you onto the pavement like the jelly bean you are!"
"Hmph, big talk for a brat whose about to die!" Bean slammed the tip of his blade into the ground, and it caused a heavy quake. The soldiers and Raimundo fell to their knees! As Rai stood up, he didn't notice Bean charging at him shoulder first.
"Hiy-aaaah!"
BOOM!
Raimundo crashed into the wall, creating a heavy crater.
He groaned as he slipped off the wall and hit the ground. Two shoulders came and picked him up, dragging him to Bean.
"Heh, told you boy." Bean took his time searching through his pockets until he found the piece.
"Lock him up! I'll call Wuya later to tell her that her little ballsy slave ran over here to steal from mey!"
"Yes sir!" The soldiers continued to drag him until they were out of sight.
Bean placed his piece back in the treasure room, where he grinned at it in victory.
"Strange, but I feel like I've fought the kid befo…"
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Dojo descended near the boundaries of Texas. "This is as far as I can go, guys!"
Raimundo hopped off first. "Thanks, Dojo. All of this flying you do saves a hell of a lot of time."
"And we're running out of time, we need to hurry before our activities get to Chase Young in anyway!"
They had just come from Hannibal Bean's lair in Australia. The two guards, Alice and Jack, had taken Raimundo out of sight so they could all escape from Bean. Jack had crafted a fake piece for Bean to take back from Raimundo while they took off with the real one. Even if Bean called Wuya, he'd still be missing, and they couldn't tell Chase because of his 'letter' to Wuya.
Rika wrapped the handcuffs around herself and Jaku. "Let's go."
Alice and Jack in their suits nodded in agreement as they all walked in single file into the fields.
It wasn't long before a few soldiers approached them.
"What's going on here?"
"Trespassers. We found 'em by the borderline. We'll take 'em to Tubbimura to see what he wants us to do with them."
The guards and monks followed the other soldiers to Tobimura's kitchen, where they came face to face with the large shinobi himself.
"Damn, he shoulda stuck with that Subway diet…" Jack muttered to himself.
"Tresspassers?" The ninja squealed. "Put them to work with in the fields, then! I don't care where they came from, they are stupid for trying to escape to here!"
"They claimed they were going to take a Sands of Time piece from you," Alice explained, "Do you know what they are talking about, sir?"
"Hmph! This piece of junk Chase gave me? It's useless!" He took the piece out of his pocket and THREW IT ON THE GROUND! "Take them away!"
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When the soldiers left Tubimura with the prisoners, one of them held up a Shen Gong Wu.
"Munchurian Musca!" Jack exclaimed. He turned into a fly and buzzed back into the room as Alice escorted the prisoners to the fields.
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Clay Bailey stood up. He was exhausted, sick, and pale as a goat. He wiped the sweat off his brow as he tried to pluck the wheat in front of him.
"Clay."
Clay looked up at the person whose eyes were fixated on his cripples form.
"What have I done to you…"
He managed to widen his eyes. "Long time no see, little darlin'."
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Raimundo and Jaku were having difficulty carrying Clay into Bartholomew's temple. They plopped him onto the medical bed inside the dojo.
"What happened to him?" Omi asked.
"He's malnourished," Jaku explained, "he needs food and water."
"I've got ice cream!" Bartholomew exclaimed. "I've also got salad too, though."
"No!" Clay cried. "I… I can't…."
"Oh dear, he's delusional in this state!" Alice cried.
"I can't… eat that. I must… eat…Steak!"
Raimundo chuckled. "Well, he's not in serious danger if he's cracking jokes. It's good to have you back, cowboy."
"Thanks, Rai-buddy, but I am pretty thirsty, actually."
"Here!" Omi dosed his face in water. "For you to be not malnourished!"
Clay gagged. "I can't breathe, little buddy!" Omi stopped. "That's better, I guess…" He stopped and narrowed his eyes. "I can't believe Chase Young took over the world… My families' enslaved, and you guys were too."
"We were," Omi agreed, "but thanks to Rika, we all escaped!"
Clay turned his attention to the girl standing away from him in the room.
"I didn't do anything except cause all of this." She said flatly. "We can't stop now. We have one more dragon to save."
"Kimiko." Raimundo finished.
"PandaBubba knows everything. If Kimiko goes missing, he'll report it to Chase, so we have to find a time when we can replace Kimiko with your Chamelio-bot, Jack."
"No problem!" Jack sauntered in. "We almost have all the pieces, too!"
"Just two more," Rika enlightened, "then we can go back and find out how to stop Chase."
"Rika…" Clay stood up from the bed and approached her.
Her heart was racing. "Clay. I don't have any excuse. I put all for you, and your families, in serious danger, and I know you can't forgive me, but-"
A crushing pain. Her lungs were going to burst.
"Took you long enough to figure out we weren't the bad guys, little, darlin'." He mentioned in his embrace. "Glad your back!"
"Clay…" Rika wrapped her arms around him.
"You didn't know what Chase was plotting. He tricked you, he tricked all of us."
"Yeah, I feel pretty stupid for letting him use me too, actually." Jaku admitted.
It was at that moment that Jack Spicer scoffed at the scene, turned his head away and folded his arms. "Yeah, you're all pretty pathetic, actually."
Everyone looked at the evil boy genius.
He looked back at them. "I can't believe all of you supposed Xiaolin Dragons got tricked by Chase Young. If it weren't for me, you'd all be in a lot of shit right now!"
"What's gotten into you, Spicer?" Raimundo asked.
"Humph," He closed his eyes, "I'd just like some recognition, that's all."
Omi stepped forth "You no good-!"
"Wait, Omi," Rika stopped him, "he's right."
"You're agreeing with him?" Jaku snapped.
"He came to me and convinced me to come up with a plan. Plus, we'd be in trouble right now if it weren't for all of his robots we're using to make copies of you all." She turned to him. "Thanks, Jack."
It was the first time in a while that Jack seemed to be rather staid towards her. "Whatever."
"Yeah, for once I'm glad you exist, Spicer." Raimundo teased. "Now, let's get going. We can't keep regretting about what happened with Jaku, Rika and Arko; we can only look ahead."
"Arko?" Omi echoed. "W-where is Arko, anyway?"
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Kimiko headed down the hall with her tray of grapes for the master. Her mind wandered as she looked down at the workers below, slaving away to create more deadly virtual games.
Raimundo… are you really dead?
"Ah, there you are Kimiko." PandaBubba was standing by the throne.
"PandaBubba," she recognized, "I brought your food."
"Yes, I can see that," he muttered, "but actually, Kimiko, I have another task for you."
"What is it?"
"I'm working on a game that features a "boss" you have to battle, and I'd like you to be the demo play against the enemy! You know, to test out the game play of this opponent."
"You want me to fight again? Who?"
PundaBubba smirked as he snapped his fingers. The soldiers came marching in, pulling chains, and something attached to those reigns.
Kimiko's eyes widened. The monster roared and whipped the soldiers about by the chains as it was dragged into the room.
"Arko?" She yelled.
"Frisky little hound, isn't he?" PundaBubba cackled. "Kimiko Tohomiko, you will battle Arko Delet, to the death!"
TO BE CONTINUED.
Oh noes! Nose goes! Epic fight about to begin! I hope Kimiko can hold her own against freaken Anubis-looking Arko~ we'll find out next tiiime! :D Sorry there wasn't a lot of lovey-dovey in this chapter zura D: but obviously something huge is about to happen, so don't panic! Also, did anyone get why I had a moment where Tubimura's actions were all upper-cased? Because he THREW IT ON THE GROOOUND! Shame on you if you don't get the joke (Just kidding. Please look up SNL, Threw it On the Ground, on YouTube if you haven't seen this epic clip yet). Thanks for reading; I hope you are all still enjoying the story! And as always, reviews are greatly appreciated. :3 Have a fabulous day!
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