welcome to the fifteenth chapter of my 'Xiaolin Showdown' fanfiction originally from the mind of CommonKnowledge, who discontinued their fanfiction for reasons unknown to their many readers, including me. I know. it's such a crying shame that CommonKnowledge left his/her fanfiction, 'Into the Rush', totally and forever incomplete. I really wish that he/she had finished it. my reasons for list CommonKnowledge as an unspecified sex are because I don't want to assume whether he/she is a boy or a girl. I also don't wanna post this chapter without giving him/her any credit for the inspiration of this fanfiction of mine. I really wish I had read the DaVinci Code. I'd have been better prepared to keep my word from the beginning of this fanfiction about continuing my fanfiction and pleasing my readers where CommonKnowledge unfortunately disappointed his/her readers when he/she discontinued 'Into the Rush', his/her readers like me. why'd you do it, CommonKnowledge? why didn't ya just finish it? my own mother has her own copy of the book. maybe, I'll ask her if I can borrow it sometime. this fifteenth chapter is a total of one-thousand-one words of storyline long. the storyline of this chapter doesn't include this headnote, right here, or the (mandatory) disclaimer which makes up the following paragraph.
disclamation: I don't own either the gem that was 'Xiaolin Showdown' or its sucky excuse for a reboot that was 'Xiaolin Chronicles'. both series are owned solely by Christy Hui in terms of creation. I know, just like the Fountain of Hui shen gong wu. if I were a gambler, I'd wager that she named that particular shen gong wu after herself. the ownership rights of 'Xiaolin Showdown' in terms of production are reserved for the Warner Brothers Studios, while the ownership rights of the trainwreck that was 'Xiaolin Chronicles' in its own productional terms are reserved for DisneyXD. most of this fanfiction is not even my own work. it was originally done by someone else on this site under the penname of CommonKnowledge, but he/she abandoned their own fanfiction. I'm beginning to wonder if the person behind the penname is even still breathing. anyway, I only wrote this fanfiction up because I wanted to continue their work for them if they were just never gonna finish their own fanfiction. at least, I admit to that sort of thing.
Raimundo suddenly took a moment or two to just tease his scavenger hunt partner, Kimiko, about when she could not piece even the starter clue together.
Raimundo Pedrosa: Now, that wasn't so hard after all, was it?
Kimiko only rolled her eyes at her scavenger hunt partner's teasing as she slid onto the floor next to Raimundo so he could watch her as she operated her laptop.
Kimiko 'Tomye': You know, I suddenly feel like that one was pretty easy.
Then, Kimiko punched in an address on her laptop's search engine. Raimundo grew curious about the address that his scavenger hunt partner typed on the keyboard.
Raimundo Pedrosa: Where are you goin'?
Kimiko 'Tomye': The thirteenth floor. Where else?
Raimundo only nodded at Kimiko, understanding her perfectly well.
Raimundo Pedrosa: Shoulda seen that one coming. Then again, it does make sense, especially when considering that there's no such thing as a thirteenth floor in the building structures of New York City.
Kimiko only gave Raimundo a wicked grin as she waited for the page to load from the internet on her laptop.
Kimiko 'Tomye': Don't worry if you're a little slow. I'm sure that you'd have gotten it eventually.
Raimundo was about to respond to his scavenger hunt partner, Kimiko's, comment about his speed of thoughts when her cursing suddenly caught his attention.
Kimiko 'Tomye' (continued): I can't believe it. The stupid page didn't load.
Raimundo Pedrosa: Ya think it could be the connection, girl?
Raimundo's comment about Kimiko's laptop computer earned a glare from his partner for the deadly scavenger hunt which had clearly asked him…
Kimiko 'Tomye's' glare at Raimundo Pedrosa: How dare you doubt my computer?
Raimundo Pedrosa's brain: Ah man, she's right with that kinda glare of hers. That kind of comment was just not right, even for me to say. I'm even above it, myself, and I'm sure that dealing with such things is beneath her.
Raimundo had decided to fix his mistake with Kimiko by giving her a suggestion for how to search for whatever they were even looking for a little differently than she had been at the time.
Raimundo Pedrosa (continued): OK, OK, why don't ya try something other than dot com, like a dot net or even a dot org.
Kimiko nodded at her partner, Raimundo's, suggestion and then punched in the keys on her computer. When both the 'dot net' and the 'dot org' brought up nothing just as the 'dot com' had, she swore out loud. Kimiko was getting pretty discouraged by the pages her search had brought up, or rather lack thereof.
Kimiko 'Tomye': What else do you think we could try?
Kimiko 'Tomye's mind: Maybe, I'd been wrong about this clue.
Raimundo seemed to read Kimiko's mind as he only shook his head at his partner for the dangerous game into which the two of them had both been drafted.
Raimundo Pedrosa: You're right about the clue, alright. We're just missing something, an important component of some kind. What did the other line from the clue say, again?
Kimiko narrowed her eyes at the other line from within the clue.
Kimiko 'Tomye': You mean 'far from home'? Yeah, once again, I've got nothing.
Raimundo mused the word 'home' for a minute or two before he asked Kimiko his follow-up question regarding the word 'home'.
Raimundo Pedrosa: Where's your home?
Kimiko 'Tomye': Here in New York City, I guess.
Raimundo pressed Kimiko forwards.
Raimundo Pedrosa: Come on, Kimiko. Don't do this. We need details, here.
Kimiko sighed at Raimundo's words before she finally conceded.
Kimiko 'Tomye': Fine then… I'm originally from Tokyo in Japan. I just moved to New York City for school.
Raimundo Pedrosa: Really now?
It might have sounded like just another tease to Kimiko, but Raimundo was only too impressed with just how flawless her English was. He was even a little scared of the fact that it did not hold even so much as a Japanese accent, however that was supposed to sound. It was her turn by then to ask him the same question in return.
Kimiko 'Tomye': What about you? Where are you originally from?
Raimundo, however, was in no way intimidated by Kimiko turning the tables on him.
Raimundo Pedrosa: Eh, moved to New York City from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil when I was around nine to twelve years old.
Raimundo just chose not to elaborate to Kimiko on the story of why he and his family moved to New York from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Raimundo Pedrosa (continued): Kinda been in Washington D.C. for the past couple of years, though.
Kimiko 'Tomye': Afraid that outside of New York, there isn't too much common ground there.
Raimundo Pedrosa: Let's just stay with what we know, Kim.
Raimundo covered his lips with his hands as he tried to prevent the nickname which he had just invented for his partner in the deadly scavenger hunt, Kimiko, from getting out to the ears of the girl in question. It was too late for him to stop said nickname for her from getting out into the open, though. He lucked out, however, as she did not seem to catch his nickname for her by then.
Raimundo could practically see the wheels turning themselves around all throughout the space in Kimiko's head. She suddenly gasped, and her gasp took her partner for the scavenger hunt of danger by surprise.
Kimiko 'Tomye': Homepage! Far from home! Homepage is what that line in the clue meant.
Raimundo Pedrosa: Way to go, girl!
Kimiko Tohomiko: Well, thank you, Raimun_
Kimiko was just thanking her partner for the game into which the two of them had both been drafted for his compliment to her when she'd suddenly remembered who it was that was with her at the time and that she was basically thanking Raimundo Pedrosa, the same guy who had teased her about the starter clue just a few moments prior to her own realization of what it meant.