Heylin Dragon
By: Aubrie1234
"You know why I have a bad attitude about betrayals?"
"No, why?"
"Because Chase fucking threw me to a dinosaur."
"Are you still incensed about that?"
"Ah!" Jack whipped around and Senshi growled. Chase felt tempted to roll his eyes but resisted. Once he realized who it was, Jack snarled, "Of course I'm still incensed! You would be too if you were thrown by the guy you looked up to into the jaws of a monster that could eat you in one bite!"
"You were fine."
"Barely! What are you even doing here?" Chase glanced at the digimon.
"I wanted to talk to Senshi. In private, if possible."
"If you're planning on doing something to him-"
"You know I am an honorable man, Spicer. I promise not to hurt him." Jack glanced at Senshi. The dragon nodded, putting his trust in Chase, and so Jack nodded back.
"Fine. But the second something happens, expect to be blasted." Jack watched them go up the stairs before nervously going back to his project. Senshi hopped onto the kitchen counter as Chase joined him.
"What's this about?" asked the dragon.
"I thought about our conversation a week ago and I have come to the conclusion that your words have merit."
"What words?"
"That I care about Spicer." The only sign that Chase was uncomfortable was the slight narrowing of his eyes, "Tell no one of this or you will be killed."
"Got it. But why are you telling me?"
"There is no way I am telling Wuya, Hannibal, or the Warriors and certainly not Jack." Senshi tilted his head.
"And why not? If you care about him-"
"I do not care about him in the way you may think. He is not only a friend to me." Chase shook his head, "You would not understand." He stepped away from the counter and headed to the outside door.
"Wait!" Chase paused, "Why don't you try? Are you scared?"
"I am not scared. I only know for certain that he would reject me." As soon as he stepped out the door, Chase was gone. Senshi sighed before heading downstairs.
"You okay? He didn't try to trick you, did he?"
"No." Senshi sat on the chair in front of the computer as Jack glanced at him.
"You're certain?"
"Yeah, only..." Senshi paused. He couldn't go behind Chase's back.
"What? What'd he say?" Jack turned to him. Senshi shook his head.
"He made me promise not to say. It's not a bad thing, he just had to tell it to me."
"Why you? Doesn't he trust me or Wuya?" Jack sounded sad. Senshi hopped out of the chair and trotted over to hug Jack's waist.
"Of course he does, but this was something from back when you had me leave." Senshi looked up at the teenager, "You get it?"
"Yeah, I guess. Doesn't make it feel any better, though." Jack rubbed Senshi's head then went back to work. Senshi returned to the chair. However, sometimes Jack would pause and Senshi wondered if he was about to say something, but then he'd go back to the robot. It was slowly irritating the dragon until he finally asked what was wrong. Jack sighed, "I really care about Chase, okay?"
"As a friend?"
"Kinda." Jack dragged a hand through his hair, "It's more than that. I don't think you understand what romance is, do you?"
"I do." Jack glanced up.
"Really?"
"We may not have parents, but digimon know about romance." Senshi spoke, "Are you in love with Chase?"
"Yeah, a bit." Jack blushed, which stood out against his white skin.
"Huh." So I was right. "Are you ever-?"
"No fucking way. He'd laugh at me before feeding me to his cats." The albino shivered, "Confessing isn't worth getting eaten alive. Plus I'm still mad at him about the whole T-Rex thing." Senshi nodded. He understood that even though he thought they were both being idiots.
"Well, if you ever need any help with him, I'm always here."
"Which is literally a godsend." Jack smiled at him and Senshi smiled back.
Senshi growled as the alarms blared. It was the middle of the night, why didn't the Warriors seem to get that even the bad guys needed their beauty sleep? Jack groaned and pulled a pillow over his head before throwing it off angrily.
"Jackbots, don't engage them but keep them out of my room!" he ordered. The robots saluted him before flying away. Senshi sighed.
"You know it's no use in keeping them out."
"Yeah, but shouldn't they be asleep too? We're in the same time zone, it shouldn't be that hard!"
"Tell that to them." Senshi covered his eyes as he laid his head on Jack's chest. Despite the growing muscle, the teenage genius' chest was surprisingly comfortable. It was only when a Jackbot informed them that the Warriors were heading upstairs that they decided to get out of bed. Standing in the hallway, Jack yawned as the four trudged up the stairs with a sleepy Dojo, who was also trying to nap on Clay's hat.
"There you are, Jack Spicer! Spoon over the Wu!"
"It's fork over the Wu, dude."
"That too."
"Chromedome, can't you see that we were fast asleep?" Jack grumbled, "Come back when I actually feel like giving a shit."
"Hey, if you don't care, then we'll just raid the mansion." Kimiko shrugged. Jack glared at her.
"Steal any of my stuff and my Jackbots will be on your asses in seconds. You're in my territory, my rules."
"If you say so." All of the Warriors were smug and Jack itched to wipe it off their faces by having his newest and strongest Jackbots throw them out. Instead, he nodded to Senshi and the dragon held up the Wu that they'd taken with them. The Warriors' eyes widened.
"Wait-!"
"Shard of Lightning!" Instantly all time stopped around them. Jack and Senshi grinned at one another.
"If you'll do the honors." Jack gestured.
"My pleasure." Senshi kicked them all off the balcony before time started again and the four dropped to the floor. The dragon and his human friend glared at the four teens below them as Dojo looked around sleepily.
"What? What'd I miss?"
"Us getting our butts kicked." Clay groaned.
"What I don't get is why Jack has a dragon friend." said Kimiko, "I thought dragons were supposed to be the good guys!"
"I am a good guy!" Senshi chirped, "You're all just assholes!"
"Nice one!" Jack snickered.
"Well, it's true. Out of all of you, Jack's the only one who's actually made an effort to be nice to me, unlike you weasels."
"HEY!" cried the Xiaolin, even though they guiltily knew it was true.
"If we were nice to you, would you join us?" asked Omi.
"Suck it, Cheeseball." This had Jack cackling again.
"Oh, you're the best!" He hugged the digimon.
"Trying to be nice just to get me on your side isn't gonna work because I know what you've been like to Jack and that's not exactly something I like, y'know?" Senshi drawled once Jack let him go, "Actually change your ways for good and be nice to Jack and I might consider it. But until then, scram! Ryudamon digivolve to... Ginryumon! Metal Armor Blade!" The daggers that poured out of his mouth sent the Warriors running. Once they were off the grounds, Senshi dedigivolved and yawned. Jack smiled and picked up the dragon under the arms, finding him to not be as heavy as he appeared, and carried the digimon like a baby back to their room. Senshi didn't resist and just leaned into Jack, happy to have such a friend.
The next time they saw the Warriors was the next day in Canada, fighting for another Wu. This time it was just Jack against Clay, the Eye of Dashi vs the Thorn of Thunderbolt. It was a challenge of falling, for whoever reached the ground first lost. They were fighting over what appeared to be a baseball bat covered in large red balls, almost like balloons. In the beginning, Clay seemed to have an advantage, taking out any rock that Jack dared to stand on, but then Jack was shocking him off his own pillars and eventually Clay was the first to reach the ground, allowing Jack to get the new Wu. Senshi cheered for the albino goth, somewhat glad. Seriously, Jack might be turning him evil if he thought sticking it to some snot-nosed teens was fun. But then again, the Xiaolin kinda deserved it.
"More Wu for me and the Xiaolin Losers got their asses handed to 'em! Today is a good day." Jack sighed happily as he and Senshi walked back to the jet.
"Well, you can only take so much humiliation. I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to get back at us sooner or later."
"Good point, but we'll burn that bridge when we get to it."
"What?"
"It's a combination of sayings. 'We'll cross that bridge when we get to it' and 'burning your bridges.' Combining sayings like that makes it a malaphor."
"I keep learning more and more new things about this world because of you..." Senshi shook his head.
"Well, it wasn't really a challenge." Jack admitted, "I tend to win Showdowns more often if its a snow sport or I'm using my robots or metallic Wu. I've made whole charts about it."
"Then that must mean you're good with metal." Jack shrugged.
"I build robots for a living. I've also been shocked more times than I can count. I honestly wouldn't be surprised, especially if..." Jack trailed off. Senshi glanced at his face and found him frowning. Senshi frowned back.
"If?"
"It's nothing." Jack shook his head, "Let's just go home." They reached the jet and he climbed in. Senshi paused, wondering what Jack was getting at, but decided it wasn't the time. He hopped in and soon enough they were flying back to China.
"Jack?"
"Yeah?"
"I know it's been a while, but how do you feel?"
"You mean with the whole neuropathy thing?" Jack watched the dragon nod in the rearview mirror. He grinned, "Awesome, honestly. Everyday I don't have to worry about accidentally getting hurt or something because it doesn't act up. I feel as high as a kite now!"
"So you feel great?"
"Yep, though there's one thing that's kinda nagging at me. I think it might just be the hole where I was worried all the time about my neuropathy." Jack shrugged, "No more worry equals less stress, which I honestly kinda need, dealing with the Warriors all the time."
"That's good." Senshi was silent again as they continued back to the lab. However, when they arrived, Senshi started growling. He hated how people always seemed to be waiting when they returned and now was no exception.
"Hah! I knew you were hiding something!" Ashley proclaimed. Jack made a squawking sound.
"Damnit! Why do you have to be so snoopy?!" Jack kept Senshi behind him, hoping Ashley would leave things be for once.
"Ever heard of 'curiosity killed the cat-'"
"Yeah-"
"'-but satisfaction brought it back?'" Ashley gave Jack a smug look, "I'd sure love to know what's going on with that little dragon, 'cause I didn't think you had any friends."
"Low blow, Ashley."
"It's Katnappé." she insisted, "And you don't care that you don't have any friends, it hasn't bothered you before."
"Just leave us alone, you know I've got a dragon friend that I've been hiding from you, so what?" Jack crossed his arms, "Fuck off already."
"Tsk tsk tsk, that's no way to treat a girl, Jackie." Jack growled and it was about then that Senshi decided to step in. He moved in front of Jack, still growling and glaring at Ashley.
"Senshi, no-" Jack tried tugging the digimon back but Senshi didn't budge.
"Looking for a fight?" Ashley purred, "Then let's see how you face off with my kitties!" Three white kittens jumped out of her bag and started attacking Senshi. Much to the humans' surprise, Senshi completely ignored their scratching and biting and advanced on Ashley. The teen girl hissed and tried to slash at the dragon, catching him on the helmet, but Senshi was having none of it. The jewel in his helmet began to glow yellow before he leapt at Ashley.
"Kabutogaeshi!" He kicked at Ashley and sent her flying into a cabinet. The kittens renewed their attacks more viciously and Senshi prepared to deal the finishing blow when Jack intervened.
"Stop!" The redhead stepped between Ashley and Senshi, "I may be a bad guy but I don't want anyone getting killed here!" He gave the dragon a pointed look before helping Ashley to her feet. There was a small gash on her side, cutting through her costume, but it didn't seem to be deep.
"Thanks." Ashley winced and put a hand on her wound. The kittens ceased their frenzy before returning to their master, whining and pushing against her feet, wondering if she was okay, "I'm fine, jet get back in my bag." The kittens gave one last hiss to the dragon before following her orders Jack called over one of his robots and had it grab some medical supplies. Senshi tried to approach but one Jackbot blocked his path. Senshi was led back to the stairs as Jack had Ashley sit on the lab table to help her.
"If you think about taking off my shirt-"
"Then I'll have to crop-top it, do you want that?"
"I can live with that." A Jackbot used its claws to cut away some of Ashley's costume to let Jack work.
"Jack-"
"Don't say anything." The redhead gave Senshi a glare, "I understand you were trying to protect me, but next time, ease off a little, will ya?" He then went back to helping Ashley. The blonde girl stuck her tongue out at the dragon and Senshi resisted the urge to growl. What was she playing at? There was more to this than just figuring out about Senshi and the dragon didn't like it one bit. He was forced to stay by the stairs, however, even as Jack moved past him to get some supplies from the bathroom.
"Well, this is turning out real great!" Ashley said, still sticking out her tongue.
"What do you want?" Senshi snapped.
"Oh, nothing~!"
"Katana-!" The Jackbot clamped its claws around the digimon's snout. Ashley snorted, then winced.
"Okay, no laughing." Senshi jerked out of the robot's grip.
"Tell me what's going on!"
"None of your business, handbag."
"If you're trying to do something about Jack, then don't." Senshi growled, "I'm gonna protect him no matter what you do." Ashley snorted.
"I'm not trying to hurt him, I just want him to actually see me."
"'See' you? What's that supposed to mean?"
"You're a dragon, you wouldn't understand." Senshi began growling again and the Jackbot tried to keep him from attacking Ashley for the second time.
"If I'm so dumb, then it doesn't hurt to tell me, does it?" Senshi drawled.
"And I'm not that stupid." It was then that Jack came back. After wrapping Ashley up, he bid her good-day before throwing her out.
"Honestly, does she think I don't fucking see it?" Jack grumbled as he returned to his lab after escorting Ashley to the front door.
"What's wr-"
"Don't you start." Senshi shut his mouth. Jack continued on, "I like girls, sure, but I don't like her. She's a whiny bitch who has nothing more to do than take care of her cats and annoy me." He rubbed his face tiredly, "And now she knows about you. Great."
"But I thought you liked Chase?" Senshi frowned.
"It's called being biromantic. I like both genders."
"What's a gender?"
"Oh lord..." Jack put his head down on the table, "Why does Life hate me?"
Notes:
The newest Wu is also an original from Chronicles, called the Whoabopop.
No offense to Katnappé, but she doesn't have a lot of interactions with Jack and so, even though it's a nice pairing, I don't think there's much merit to it.
There is some evidence to Jack liking both genders, if you consider that he once tried to flirt with Kimiko in Chameleon. Here's my headcanon on that: At the beginning of the series, Jack had no idea what gender he liked and he thought Kimiko looked cute, so he flirted with her. When she clearly shot that down, he respected that, especially since she was on the enemy side, and so left her alone, though he does make flirty comments sometimes without meaning to. However, upon meeting Chase, Jack's hero worship slowly turned into love and so he's tried to keep it in check by being somewhat annoying to Chase, thinking that the overlord wouldn't like him back. And yes, I meant 'biromantic' instead of 'bisexual' because there's a difference.
Everyone knows that Jack becoming the Dragon of Metal is a scrapped idea from the series, right? Well, it's going to get some merit in this story and there will be explanations why later on. Not now because I don't wanna confess too much, but things are gonna happen.
No, Senshi isn't turning evil, but he does like to put the Xiaolin in their place, since the group has gotten decayed over the course of the series. They have just not been nice to Jack and it gets worse as the series goes on. Season 1 to the end of the 3-parter connecting to Season 2 was always the best in my opinion (with the exception of adding in Chase).
Originally things were supposed to get really bad in this chapter and turn it toward where I wanted it to go, but I didn't feel like it was close enough to that point yet and so you get a filler chapter! Still feels a ways off from what I want it at, so there'll probably be other chapters filling in that gap soon.
EDIT: Megan is Jack's cousin, not Ashley. Yes, Ashley first appeared trying to avoid the party, but I don't think she's related to Jack.