A/N: The Extremo Luchadore is aware that the cast is going beyond anything he has ever imagined. It's too bad Jackie Chan Adventures is still owned by Kids WB and Sony, but maybe someday, the Extremo Luchadore will be inspired to make his own show. One about a winged demon, perhaps?
Chapter IV: Convergence C (Alternate title: Another convergence?)
"For once, the billy goat hasn't tried to rid me off the roach motel", spoke Mama Tohru without directly eyeing Jackie's uncle.
"That is because billy goat doesn't want to make mess in his shop!" yelled Uncle, as he was walking from one room of the antique shop to another, hoping to pass the time without staying next to the screechy old woman. "Jade will be coming very soon, so don't skitter or I will use a can of Raid!"
"Hmmph! Loud old brute."
"It takes one to know one!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
Uncle held his ears ever so tightly, and stormed right next to Mama Tohru with fury searing in his bespectacled eyes. "What is the matter with you?! I ought to call the cops; you are murder to my ears!"
"A thief!" screamed Mama Tohru.
Uncle turned to the shop entrance, and saw a 400 pound man, in a business suit and a red mask bordered with gold marks, standing silently. Uncle gasped and snatched a broom right next to him, and rotated the broom in perfect execution. "You will not steal from Uncle's shop! Didn't you read the sign? 10% off everything!"
El Toro looked at them in confusion, and slightly shook his head.
"Must I tell you once more, Uncle of Jackie Chan? El Toro Fuerte is no thief. I am a luchadore. Please tell this to your wife."
"Wife? Wife?! WIFE?!" Uncle was so mad he threw the broom down and crossed his arms over one another. "That woman is not my wife! She is Tohru's mother! Or maybe not...I cannot see how Tohru was raised by a giant roach!"
"It take one to know one!" barked Mama Tohru.
"What is THAT supposed to mean?" Uncle replied.
"Stop! I am terribly sorry, for the misunderstanding. But if you're Tohru's mother, where is Tohru?" El Toro Fuerte entered the shop.
"Stop there at once, and stay there!" cried Uncle. El Toro sighed as he reluctantly halted.
"My boy Tohru is in doctor's care", explained Mama Tohru. "He will remain strong as he always has. Nothing will ever stop him. I ought to meet him again, ask him where my luxury hotel is."
"Eh, good riddance!" said Uncle, as he grabbed the room and instinctively brushed across the floor, without any thought where to sweep the dust to.
"I would gladly drive you to the hospital, if you wish," offered El Toro Fuerte.
"I do not need help from a thief...but thank you anyway," said Mama Tohru in a much gentler tone, as she slowly made her way outside to call a taxi.
El Toro turned back to Uncle. "By the way, senor, I have met with Jackie. He is stopping the Dark Hand as expected." He held up his bandaged right hand. "But I can't be of help to him for a while. It will not be long, thankfully."
"Eh, thieves aren't such good help anyway. One more thing; what are you doing in San Fransisco?"
"Has Jackie or Jade not told you? One week from today, the J-Team will be a year old. There will be a celebration, for one year of conquering evil. So I have heard from nina Jade."
"So. Jade invited you?"
"She called me. Si, senor."
Sigh. "Then Jade may have called Viper, and Paco too."
"Is that bad, Uncle of Jackie?" Whap! "Oh!"
"Of course it is bad! An antique shop is not a restaurant! It will take more than a broom to fix back the shop."
"I am sure that the antique shop won't be the place for the celebration." Whap! "Oh!"
"Of course the antique shop will be used. Don't you know what they serve at restaurants these days? You should be glad Uncle is telling you this!"
El Toro was scratching the top of his masked head. "Well," he began uneasily, "I've made my way to San Francisco, and it will be good to meet everyone again. Paco's found himself a senorita in China, during my world tour. He will be back in a few days. Viper's always a mystery. I know not where she is.
"I will be staying in...next...to the shop, just in case Jade or another amigo arrives," El Toro Fuerte remarked as he stood outside, looking at the starry sky.
"Urrr! When did my shop become a pit stop for roaches and thieves?" griped Uncle.
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"New world record in 5, 4, 3..." said Jade as she jubilantly sped across San Francisco in her teal blue-scooter. School always felt like a prison to her; once stuck, you might as well go brain dead in front of the teacher and hope someone else pulled the fire alarm, so everyone can ditch their way out. But of course, that never happened, and in the end there were 500-word essays to be turned in the next day. Good news was, this happened to be the end of the school year, so her essays for the day would be her last. Then again, they were also Finals.
"...2, 1...Yeeess!" Jade finished as her scooter entered into Uncle's Rare Finds. Her eyes, at the last moment, caught El Toro Fuerte pondering at her speedy self, and that broke her focus. "Whoaaa!" She crashed right onto floor-sweeping Uncle, who yelled in wide surprise as he and Jade spun around one another like two halves of a wheel.
El Toro motioned into the shop, regardless of Uncle's orders. "Jade! Uncle of Jackie! Are you okay?"
"It's okay, El Toro," smiled Jade. "Uncle broke my fall."
"It was nothing," groaned Uncle as he pressed both hands onto the small of his back, hoping he hadn't twisted the spine.
"This is so cool!" Jade spoke. "El Toro, you came! A lot sooner than I thought, but that makes it better!"
"Si, Jade," replied El Toro. "Do not worry, Paco and Viper will be following me soon, I believe."
"Cool! Hey, wait a minute...Since when was Paco not with you?" Jade asked with a skeptical, narrow-eyed face.
"Since he had a senorita, in China, I may add."
Jade's bronze eyes bulged like never before. "No...Way. Paco's got a girlfriend?! That is so not right! How can he possibly find someone who agrees with anything he says?"
"What are you talking about?!" exclaimed Uncle. "I can not find anyone who agrees with what I say, especially thieves and cockroaches!"
"Um..Don't worry, Jade," El Toro Fuerte assured. "One day, that special senor will fly into town."
"Pssh!" Jade blew on her bangs, scowling. "I wished he could fly in now!"
"Eh, teenagers", moaned Uncle as he left the site of the conversation. "One more thing," he addressed Jade, "Jackie will return once horse is back in its stable."
"You mean the Horse Talisman is gone!?" Jade hurriedly turned to exit the antique shop. She was running with all her might, but El Toro's arm kept a hold of Jade's shoulder.
"No, nina Jade. Jackie knows what he is up against. He will be back. Until then, we should meet Tohru. Your giant friend broke his leg, so he is in the hospital."
"Good!" said Uncle. "You've stopped Jade." He pointed a broom again in threatening fashion. "Now let go of her, thief!"
Jade moved off of El Toro on her own. El Toro had no desire to stop her. "Oh, alright," she resigned, "but I'm doing this because you're here and T-Man's the bomb." El Toro smiled through the luchadore mask.
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Chapter V: Divergence A
"This may sting a mite," spoke Dr. Kepler as he applied Jackie Chan's eyes with an astringent. Chan was back in the doctor's room at Section 13. "The flash didn't affect you from an imminent radius, so your cornea and retinal conditions will be fairly prevalent."
"Prevalent?"
"Normal, to the unscientific mind."
Jackie winked several times so the astringent would take its effect. "Thank you, Kepler. But how is Black and the other officers?"
"Worse than you can conceive. The intensity of the electromagnetic device rendered their optics momentarily inept."
"Blind? For how long?"
"Probably 120 hours, but the duration could increase."
Jackie was more worried than ever. There may be no one-year anniversary for the J-Team at this rate. Everybody whose presence he had appreciated was becoming the worse for wear, all because of the Horse Talisman. Perhaps he had to give up the search then and there, so that Uncle, Jade and the others will be fine. But giving up was nowhere in his mental vocabulary.
"I need a lead to the Horse Talisman. Where is Valmont and the Enforcers?"
"The Dark Hand? Good luck catechizing them," Kepler mused with uncomfortable sarcasm. "Their cerebral functions have been subdued, could take 720 hours to regain mentality." He eyed Jackie. "30 days, to you."
Jackie groaned in frustration that he had never felt before. He wanted to hit something, someone, but nothing would come out of violence at this time.
"Sigh. I will go talk to Captain Black, and since he's in the same hospital as Tohru, I will meet the giant as well."
"O.K. See you."
"That's the simplest thing I've heard from you in my entire life," chuckled Chan as he paced his way out of Section 13.
To Be Continued......
Chapter IV: Convergence C (Alternate title: Another convergence?)
"For once, the billy goat hasn't tried to rid me off the roach motel", spoke Mama Tohru without directly eyeing Jackie's uncle.
"That is because billy goat doesn't want to make mess in his shop!" yelled Uncle, as he was walking from one room of the antique shop to another, hoping to pass the time without staying next to the screechy old woman. "Jade will be coming very soon, so don't skitter or I will use a can of Raid!"
"Hmmph! Loud old brute."
"It takes one to know one!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
Uncle held his ears ever so tightly, and stormed right next to Mama Tohru with fury searing in his bespectacled eyes. "What is the matter with you?! I ought to call the cops; you are murder to my ears!"
"A thief!" screamed Mama Tohru.
Uncle turned to the shop entrance, and saw a 400 pound man, in a business suit and a red mask bordered with gold marks, standing silently. Uncle gasped and snatched a broom right next to him, and rotated the broom in perfect execution. "You will not steal from Uncle's shop! Didn't you read the sign? 10% off everything!"
El Toro looked at them in confusion, and slightly shook his head.
"Must I tell you once more, Uncle of Jackie Chan? El Toro Fuerte is no thief. I am a luchadore. Please tell this to your wife."
"Wife? Wife?! WIFE?!" Uncle was so mad he threw the broom down and crossed his arms over one another. "That woman is not my wife! She is Tohru's mother! Or maybe not...I cannot see how Tohru was raised by a giant roach!"
"It take one to know one!" barked Mama Tohru.
"What is THAT supposed to mean?" Uncle replied.
"Stop! I am terribly sorry, for the misunderstanding. But if you're Tohru's mother, where is Tohru?" El Toro Fuerte entered the shop.
"Stop there at once, and stay there!" cried Uncle. El Toro sighed as he reluctantly halted.
"My boy Tohru is in doctor's care", explained Mama Tohru. "He will remain strong as he always has. Nothing will ever stop him. I ought to meet him again, ask him where my luxury hotel is."
"Eh, good riddance!" said Uncle, as he grabbed the room and instinctively brushed across the floor, without any thought where to sweep the dust to.
"I would gladly drive you to the hospital, if you wish," offered El Toro Fuerte.
"I do not need help from a thief...but thank you anyway," said Mama Tohru in a much gentler tone, as she slowly made her way outside to call a taxi.
El Toro turned back to Uncle. "By the way, senor, I have met with Jackie. He is stopping the Dark Hand as expected." He held up his bandaged right hand. "But I can't be of help to him for a while. It will not be long, thankfully."
"Eh, thieves aren't such good help anyway. One more thing; what are you doing in San Fransisco?"
"Has Jackie or Jade not told you? One week from today, the J-Team will be a year old. There will be a celebration, for one year of conquering evil. So I have heard from nina Jade."
"So. Jade invited you?"
"She called me. Si, senor."
Sigh. "Then Jade may have called Viper, and Paco too."
"Is that bad, Uncle of Jackie?" Whap! "Oh!"
"Of course it is bad! An antique shop is not a restaurant! It will take more than a broom to fix back the shop."
"I am sure that the antique shop won't be the place for the celebration." Whap! "Oh!"
"Of course the antique shop will be used. Don't you know what they serve at restaurants these days? You should be glad Uncle is telling you this!"
El Toro was scratching the top of his masked head. "Well," he began uneasily, "I've made my way to San Francisco, and it will be good to meet everyone again. Paco's found himself a senorita in China, during my world tour. He will be back in a few days. Viper's always a mystery. I know not where she is.
"I will be staying in...next...to the shop, just in case Jade or another amigo arrives," El Toro Fuerte remarked as he stood outside, looking at the starry sky.
"Urrr! When did my shop become a pit stop for roaches and thieves?" griped Uncle.
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"New world record in 5, 4, 3..." said Jade as she jubilantly sped across San Francisco in her teal blue-scooter. School always felt like a prison to her; once stuck, you might as well go brain dead in front of the teacher and hope someone else pulled the fire alarm, so everyone can ditch their way out. But of course, that never happened, and in the end there were 500-word essays to be turned in the next day. Good news was, this happened to be the end of the school year, so her essays for the day would be her last. Then again, they were also Finals.
"...2, 1...Yeeess!" Jade finished as her scooter entered into Uncle's Rare Finds. Her eyes, at the last moment, caught El Toro Fuerte pondering at her speedy self, and that broke her focus. "Whoaaa!" She crashed right onto floor-sweeping Uncle, who yelled in wide surprise as he and Jade spun around one another like two halves of a wheel.
El Toro motioned into the shop, regardless of Uncle's orders. "Jade! Uncle of Jackie! Are you okay?"
"It's okay, El Toro," smiled Jade. "Uncle broke my fall."
"It was nothing," groaned Uncle as he pressed both hands onto the small of his back, hoping he hadn't twisted the spine.
"This is so cool!" Jade spoke. "El Toro, you came! A lot sooner than I thought, but that makes it better!"
"Si, Jade," replied El Toro. "Do not worry, Paco and Viper will be following me soon, I believe."
"Cool! Hey, wait a minute...Since when was Paco not with you?" Jade asked with a skeptical, narrow-eyed face.
"Since he had a senorita, in China, I may add."
Jade's bronze eyes bulged like never before. "No...Way. Paco's got a girlfriend?! That is so not right! How can he possibly find someone who agrees with anything he says?"
"What are you talking about?!" exclaimed Uncle. "I can not find anyone who agrees with what I say, especially thieves and cockroaches!"
"Um..Don't worry, Jade," El Toro Fuerte assured. "One day, that special senor will fly into town."
"Pssh!" Jade blew on her bangs, scowling. "I wished he could fly in now!"
"Eh, teenagers", moaned Uncle as he left the site of the conversation. "One more thing," he addressed Jade, "Jackie will return once horse is back in its stable."
"You mean the Horse Talisman is gone!?" Jade hurriedly turned to exit the antique shop. She was running with all her might, but El Toro's arm kept a hold of Jade's shoulder.
"No, nina Jade. Jackie knows what he is up against. He will be back. Until then, we should meet Tohru. Your giant friend broke his leg, so he is in the hospital."
"Good!" said Uncle. "You've stopped Jade." He pointed a broom again in threatening fashion. "Now let go of her, thief!"
Jade moved off of El Toro on her own. El Toro had no desire to stop her. "Oh, alright," she resigned, "but I'm doing this because you're here and T-Man's the bomb." El Toro smiled through the luchadore mask.
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Chapter V: Divergence A
"This may sting a mite," spoke Dr. Kepler as he applied Jackie Chan's eyes with an astringent. Chan was back in the doctor's room at Section 13. "The flash didn't affect you from an imminent radius, so your cornea and retinal conditions will be fairly prevalent."
"Prevalent?"
"Normal, to the unscientific mind."
Jackie winked several times so the astringent would take its effect. "Thank you, Kepler. But how is Black and the other officers?"
"Worse than you can conceive. The intensity of the electromagnetic device rendered their optics momentarily inept."
"Blind? For how long?"
"Probably 120 hours, but the duration could increase."
Jackie was more worried than ever. There may be no one-year anniversary for the J-Team at this rate. Everybody whose presence he had appreciated was becoming the worse for wear, all because of the Horse Talisman. Perhaps he had to give up the search then and there, so that Uncle, Jade and the others will be fine. But giving up was nowhere in his mental vocabulary.
"I need a lead to the Horse Talisman. Where is Valmont and the Enforcers?"
"The Dark Hand? Good luck catechizing them," Kepler mused with uncomfortable sarcasm. "Their cerebral functions have been subdued, could take 720 hours to regain mentality." He eyed Jackie. "30 days, to you."
Jackie groaned in frustration that he had never felt before. He wanted to hit something, someone, but nothing would come out of violence at this time.
"Sigh. I will go talk to Captain Black, and since he's in the same hospital as Tohru, I will meet the giant as well."
"O.K. See you."
"That's the simplest thing I've heard from you in my entire life," chuckled Chan as he paced his way out of Section 13.
To Be Continued......