Talisman Transfer
A Jackie Chan/Watership Down crossover? This should be good.
Note: This is set after series 3 Jackie Chan, before series 4 Jackie Chan and during series 2 Watership Down.
Author's Note: I do not own the characters in this tale, the JCA characters belong to the real Jackie Chan and the WD characters primarily belong to Richard Adams.
Lost Talismans
Deep underground, in Section 13 HQ, guarded by an intricate security network that looks like one of Indiana Jones's challenges that has been modified; there lie twelve magical talismans, each one holding a power so great that who possesses it can be capable of super-heroic or super-villain deeds (except one that's next to useless). The vault in which they lie is the most secure vault in the building, at the door to this vault four figures stand taking one last look at the revived talismans before they are shut away for ever (or so they think).
Captain Black, commander-in-chief of Section 13, thinks about how he used to doubt the power of these talismans, when he thought them to be priceless items of grand value, but without function. Jackie Chan, archaeologist and martial arts equivalent to Indiana Jones, remembers the many troubles he had to face to prevent the talismans from falling into the wrong hands (or hand as was often the case). Jackie's uncle, known by most as Uncle, antiques dealer expert chi wizard, remembers the many locator spells he had to cast to find the talismans, along with many other chi spells he had to use in the hunt for the talismans. The only one who's feeling a true loss is the one who finds a distinguished memory in each of the talismans, who's only prevention of going against the will of the authorities is the satisfaction that she proved to her classmates that all she had said about the talismans was true (she could now tell them a pink elephant); Jade Chan, Jackie's tomboy niece who produces his only challenge yet to complete, to keep her out of the way, despite the many times when her presence proved the difference between success failure; she reminisces over the adventures she had relating to each of the talismans.
Then comes the time, they all turn away from the vault and walk off, technicians closing the vault door behind them activating the security devices; however many of these devices are entirely new, developed by section thirteen's lead scientist Kepler, everyone is unaware of the effect these security devices are having on the fabric of reality within the vault. All the reality of the vault needs to collapse is a single glitch; but everyone is oblivious of this fact and just continue.
Back at their home shop 'Uncle's Rare Finds' the Chans are greeted by the minder of the shop, who is Jade's friend and Uncle's apprentice, Tohru (silent 'h', unlike Lapine); Uncle immediately speaks up when he finds one fault with the shop.
"TOHRU!" He cries out, in his bitter tone. "Why is there no tea in the shop?" Tohru looks innocently at Uncle before making a reply that was likely to calm Uncle down.
"It is ready to be poured, Sensei!" He tells Uncle, sensei means teacher in Japanese. "'Tis in the kitchen." But Uncle's not all that calm; he's a stickler for tradition.
"Tea is not served in kitchen," He tells Tohru, "Always serve in front room!" at this Tohru responds and hurries into the kitchen and returns with a tea tray in his hands, suspended by his sumo body; he puts the tray down on a counter and Uncle is quick to pour.
The Sun is shining brightly on the down; Hazel-rah looks long and hard across the countryside for signs of trouble, always unsure for the safety of the warren. Primrose comes up to him and places a paw on his shoulder; he turns to her and sighs.
"Woundwort is a rough, brutal and cruel beast; to call him a rabbit would only be physical, he is no true rabbit!" He tells her, Primrose looks into his eyes and replies.
"He will be defeated Hazel, we will prevail!" Hazel-rah is developing paranoia and is still uncertain about the war.
"How?" He rhetorically asks her. "How can we defeat such brutality?" Primrose reminds him of his way of fighting.
"Brain against brawn, Hazel!" She tells him. "Brain against brawn!"
They go down into the Honeycomb, where Dandelion is just finishing a story he was telling to the kittens; once finished the kittens spot Hawkbit next to the entrance to a run.
"Oh, no!" He groans. "Not again!" They rush towards him, at which he squeals and runs up the run and out onto the down. Hazel-rah can't help but smirk at the sight, they practically all do when their most sarcastic and cheeky rabbit gets into some mild bother. Fiver then goes blank and shuts his eyes tightly, quivering from head to toe.
"Hello," Bigwig comments, "He's off again, early viewing!" Hazel-rah rushes to Fiver's side and inquires.
"What do you see, Fiver? What do you see?" Fiver hesitates briefly before answering.
"Four and four and four stones, each holding a very old force that even Woundwort cannot match! They will come to us and must be used without coming to the Efrafans!" He then revives, his eyes springing open. Hazel-rah looks to the others and after remaining quiet for a few seconds tells them confidently.
"I think that our luck is about boost!" Hawkbit rushes through still being chased by the kittens; he overheard Hazel-rah and makes a remark.
"A boost in bad luck!" One of the kittens then grabs onto his tail with his/her teeth causing Hawkbit to cry in pain and nearly swear if it wasn't for the fact that s/he was just a kitten.
"You know what I mean," Hazel-rah groans after him, "We're going to get an advantage in the war!"
Jade is sitting in her room, glancing at the photos on the wall (which are really screenshots from previous episodes), they are the only things left as nostalgia for her. She gets up and takes down one of Daolon Wong; it shows him wandering about blind as a bat, deaf as a post, and dumb as a waiter.
"How he regained his sight, hearing and voice," She tells the world in general, "I do not know!" She puts it back and takes another one off the wall, showing the reincarnated Lo Pei with a car floating above him. She sighs at the memory of him fighting the Dark Hand enforcers and Shadowkhan. One picture catches her eye, it depicts the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl in living form, and she smiles and reminisces out loud.
"Wisdom can be found in all places of the world; but sometimes it can be quite amusing. Daolon Wong tells his warriors about surprising the enemy, then I go and surprise him?" She sniggers for a while before continuing. "Every villain I come across is nearly always dim-witted! When will I find a real challenge I can slip into?"
Meanwhile, in Section 13, the scald-level laser guard that protects the entrance to the talismans' vault in case anyone manages to break through the door is starting to falter. The energy that emits from the beams is intensifying and causing the space-time continuum to distort ever more; this glitch, however, is picked up by security surveillance. In the control room everyone prepares to shut down the system, each waiting for the order; then Captain Black comes in.
"What is the problem!" He asks one of the security officers worryingly. That officer turns to him and replies.
"The door-guard is overloading; it must be shut down!" Captain Black immediately takes command.
"De-energise the beams at a gradual rate," He commands, "Any rushing in the shut down procedure could create an energy leak and cause those talismans to scatter across the world again!" The others prepare for the gradual stage; but one young engineer sees no importance in the talismans but as priceless treasures as are the pyramids and Stonehenge, he disobeys the orders and activates the emergency shut down, which deactivates the guard instantly.
Back in the vault the lasers turn off, but this causes an energy surge, which, coupled in with the warp in the space-time continuum and the rabbit and sheep talismans, causes a temporary rip in the fabric of the reality. The resulting rip causes a gush of wind through the vault, whisking up all twelve talismans and sending them through to another dimension; after which the rip rapidly self-repairs, leaving a normal space-time continuum an empty vault.
In the control room one of the security officers reports the immediate deactivation to Captain Black, who is none too pleased to hear about it.
"I thought I told you," Captain Black tells the officer, "Not too use immediate deactivation!" The officer nods and replies.
"We were preparing to, Captain! But someone deactivated it immediately, I don't know who but I'm making inquiries!" Captain Black is still unhappy, he picks up the phone and before dialling he tells the officer.
"An inquiry is not gonna help that much! There's only one person I can think of who'll see the bright side of this, and she's not encouraged to help, it's not much of a bright side either!" He presses an auto-dial on the phone pad and puts the receiver to the side of his head ready to receive a reply.
At Uncle's Rare Finds the telephone rings, Uncle immediately goes to answer it.
"Hello," He announces into the phone, "Uncle's Rare Finds! How may Uncle be of assistance?" Over the phone he listens to Captain Black relaying the news to him. "Hmm, yes, yes. We must make sure of the talismans! Your men are very careless!" He slams the receiver down and turns to Jackie. "Jackieee!" He cries out to him, Jackie turns to Uncle. "We must get down to Section 13! There has been very bad mishap!" Jackie leaps to his feet and replies.
"Not to do with the talismans?" Uncle gives Jackie a look that if he makes any more pointless comments he'll receive a two-finger salute.
"Yes, now get ready!" They then do so; they each have a main worry, each on being different. Uncle is worried that the talismans may fall into the wrong hands; Jackie is worried about Jade slipping through the net, she's probably the only one who makes a promise and then exploits a hard to find loophole in that promise (your ideal lawyer, in fact).
Dandelion stands at the edge of the down, watching out for signs of trouble; be it a Efrafan wide patrol or Kehaar coming in for landing, he then sees a brief flash in the sky and hrair stones falling across the land, scattered. He then rushes to the others to tell them the news.
"HAZZEELLL!" He cries out rushing into the Honeycomb. "Some stones have fallen out of the sky and scattered across the land!" They all look at each other in shock before Hazel-rah speaks.
"Captain Broom," He asks the old, but tedious, veteran, "What do you say to this situation?" Bigwig murmurs in Holly's ear.
"I bet he's seen it!" Holly looks blankly at Bigwig; Hazel-rah adds something to his question.
"Well, Captain?" Captain Broom turns to the others and replies.
"I've seen this!" Bigwig groans, everyone else gasps and Hazel-rah asks another question.
"Where have you seen this before?" Bigwig makes another murmur in Holly's ear.
"'In my day'!" Holly sighs and braces himself for Broom's reply.
"In my day…" Begins Broom, Bigwig winks at Holly before Broom continues; "Some men were building something near our warren, and every now and then they would throw up some of the stones into the air and they'd scatter across the land." Hazel-rah turns to the others and makes a suggestion.
"Perhaps these stones could give us an understanding of men. What do you all think of retrieving a few of these stones to see if they have any connection to their behaviour?" Everyone makes expressions to show their agreement to the idea. At this Dandelion, Hazel-rah, Blackberry and Holly go off to find some of the stones.
Uncle and Jackie are ready to go to Section 13 to investigate the safety of the talismans; Tohru is left behind to look after the shop, and Jade; one being harder than the other. Can you guess which one?
Jackie bends down to Jade and puts his hand on her shoulder.
"You must promise me," He tells Jade, "You won't go and mess up the base!" Jade immediately spots the loophole in Jackie's request and innocently replies.
"Yes, Jackie; I promise!" Jackie takes this positively and he and Uncle set off for Section 13. Jade goes up to her room to think about the best way to slip away, whilst Tohru keeps an eye on the counter.
Later on Tohru goes upstairs to talk to Jade; however when he opens her bedroom door she's not there. He rushes around calling out her name, he even looks in the more unlikely places before realising the obvious; he rushes to the telephone and dials Jackie's mobile phone number.
His efforts, however, are futile; Jackie has his mobile phone off and is talking to Captain Black about the situation.
"Do you really think," Jackie asks Uncle after hearing Captain Black's fears, "That the talismans have re-scattered across the world?" Uncle makes a rather calm reply.
"The talismans cannot be scattered across the world! What Uncle worries about is the talismans being scattered through time!" They all walk down to the vault; the full alarm system has been deactivated except for the floor guard inside the vault the vault door itself. At the vault door Captain Black goes through all the ropes to get the door open; once the door is opened all three gasp at the sight of an empty vault, the talismans are gone!
"Any thoughts about where they went?" Comes a familiar female voice from behind them; they all turn to face, who else but Jade.