Jack to the Past

Full Summary: Jack Spicer's very existence is threatened when his old enemy Tommy Error (See "Unhealthy Competition") goes back in time to destroy Jack before he has a chance to become an evil scientist. With his ragtag team of allies, Jack must go back to the past and prevent his rival from altering the future. Along the way, Team Spicer and Jack himself will witness Jack's origins and the very events that shaped the once promising prodigy and inventor; Jack Spicer, into the evil scientist he is today…

Prologue- Blast from the Past

Jack didn't know why he was standing in the playground of his old elementary school. It was raining, it was dark and he was cold. He should've been back in his lab, making some incredible death-bot, doing something he loved. Instead of sitting on top of a jungle gym, staring longingly at the school.

"At least Wuya isn't here to see me like this." Thankfully, Jack had left the ancient Heylin witch and her snappy comments, back in the lair. Chameleon-bot ver. 2.5 had accompanied him instead.

For some untold reason, even to him, he always returned to this very spot, this very school every year as if waiting…for someone or something. At least he wasn't wet. Chameleon-bot was holding an umbrella over his head. Finally, Jack felt like the person he was waiting for would never come. "Let's go Chameleon-bot. No-ones coming." Jack put his goggles on and looked at his watch.

Chameleon-bot stood still. "Sir, I'm picking up some strange energy signatures around the general area. It would be advisable to investigate this anomaly." It said in a monotonous tone.

"Is your CPU busted?" Jack asked. "What anomaly? There's nothing here!"

Lightning flashed across the pitch black sky. Thunder roared through the night. Suddenly, a strange blue portal opened, crackling with energy. Then a mass of black metal came tumbling out of the portal. The thing grunted as it crashed on the ground.

The black thing resembled a large robot with cracked glass eyes, black armor and was huge. It seemed to have something blue on it's enormous back. It roared and threw the blue thing at the jungle gym that Jack was sitting on.

Luckily, Chameleon-bot had seen this coming and pulled Jack away from the jungle gym and jumped to safety. "Engage secondary objective. Protect Jack Spicer and destroy all assailants." Chameleon-bot rammed the black robot in the chest.

"Secondary Objective? Why am I the secondary objective? If anything, I should be the primary objective!" Jack protested. When he received no reply, he decided to take a look at the fallen blue object.

The evil boy genios was shocked when he saw that the blue object was in fact a Jack-bot. Or it appeared to be a Jack-bot. Albeit a very beat-up looking Jack-bot. But instead of having shiny golden armor, the robot was plated with cheap blue metal, which was relatively low quality. The blue robot's eyes were made of green glass, not unlike that of a Sprite soda bottle. On it's back was one of Jack's old inventions, a prototype jetpack that probably gave it the power to hover. One of it's arms was missing and the wiring protruding from the socket indicated that it had been removed by force. In it's remaining arm, it clutched a small silver device.

Jack tentatively lifted the device from the robot's grip. He examined it closely. There was a small slot on it, like on an old arcade game where you usually insert coins. Suddenly he felt something cold clutch his leg. He quickly looked down and saw the blue robot was holding his leg. It was still functional! Jack reached into his pocket for his goo gun but the Jack-bot look-a-like looked up to him and said in a relieved voice. "You've grown…J-Jack. I'm so g-glad you're o-okay. Mission accompli-." The robot shut down before it had a chance to finish it's sentence.

Jack was quick to jump away from the blue robot. How did it know his name? He had never seen it before in his life. And yet, it looked familiar. The designs of the robot were almost like a Jack-bot's. But it was made of cheap metal and cheap parts. It's voice had been so full of emotion, expressing both relief, pain and a certain medium of joy and grief. His Jack-bot's had emotions, but not to that extent. Jack told himself to think. To try to remember who this bot was. He strained harder and harder. But the pouring rain and sounds from the battle between Chameleon-bot and the giant black robot distracted him. Then Jack recalled, but the memory was accompanied by a splitting headache. But he remembered, the robot was; 5K4T. But that's all he could recall.

Chameleon-bot was handling the fight with great success. The monstrosity he was fighting was huge, powerful, but it's systems were obsolete. Chameleon landed another punch on the black robot, knocking it down. He leapt on top of it and was about to deliver the final blow, when he heard Jack cry in agony. For a moment, Chameleon-bot was distracted and one moment was all that the black bot needed. It bear-hugged Chameleon-bot and was slowly crushing it. Chameleon-bot groaned, visional sensors showing mosaic. He quickly regained his bearings and chopped at the black bot on the head, destroying it. The arms released Chameleon-bot from it's vice grip and the big black robot slumped to the ground, lifeless.

Meanwhile, Jack had recovered from his migraine and looked up to see Chameleon-bot standing over him. "Sir. Mission Accomplished." Chameleon-bot did a salute to it's creator. "What is your condition? I hope you did not sustain permanent damage."

"I'm fine Chameleon-bot." Jack said, rubbing his forehead. "You look bad though."

"Minor damage to visual systems and inner circuits. Nothing unrepairable." Chameleon-bot stated.

"Hmm…speaking of repairs, you think we could fix that." Jack pointed to the blue robot lying on the ground. "I want to ask it a few questions."

"My apologies, but sensors indicate that it's system has been completely fried, the temporal gate we saw earlier was the probable cause as well as the black robot."

"I…see." Jack was upset at this. "Do me a favor and bring it with us and…" Suddenly Jack's communicator beeped. A Jack-bot's voice crackled over the radio.

"Security breach. Intruder apprehended. Please return." The voice requested. Jack muttered something under his breath and closed the communicator.

Chameleon-bot picked up 5K4T and slung it over it's shoulder. They both made their back to the hovercar.

To be continued…