Chapter 10

Rai started to get nervous. Was Omi beginning to catch on? Did Omi have a crush on Kimiko as well?

Impossible... thought Rai. Omi would've told me so...but then, we wouldn't be here! Rai shook his head furiously.

Clay frowned. "You okay, partner?"

"I don't know." Rai looked around. "Hey, where's Omi?"

Dojo opened his mouth to respond, but there was a loud BOOM.

Pieces of wood, metal and drywall flew out towards the two Wudai Warriors and the dragon. A cloud of dust followed. Luckily, Rai was able to clear the dust away with his Wudai Star WIND attack. And he there found...

"Omi!"

The bald monk coughed as he stood up. "Wudai Neptune WATER!" A fountain of H2O shot towards the empty doorway. A clanking sound of metal feet told Rai that it was the Chameleon-Bot.

"You will not get the best of me with your shape-shifting!" called Omi, leaping up to plant his foot in the robot's face. Except the Chameleon-Bot changed into someone smaller. Like Omi.

"I think he just did." said Rai with the slightest hint of laughter in his voice.

Omi (both of them) shot Rai a nasty glare as they continued to fight.

"I can't take it!" moaned Dojo. "I can't tell who's who!"

Chameleon-Bot must've heard Dojo, because in an instant, the robot transformed into...

"Master Fung?"

In that spilt-second Omi stopped his assault, Chameleon-Bot kicked the Dragon of Water away, and Omi landed in the wall, leaving an imprint.

"Ooh..." Omi put a hand to his head. "That stung..." Shaking himself out of it, Omi tried again. "Wudai Neptune WATER!" Water formed two giant fists around Omi's hands, and he began to swing the fists around at Chameleon-Bot.

But the robot was quicker. Morphing into a snake, Chameleon-Bot slithered between the water fists, changed into its default form, and smacked Omi from behind.

"I've had it!" snarled Omi, recovering from his fall. "Wudai Neptune WATER!" A spout of water pinned the Chameleon-Bot to the wall, next to the imprint Omi made earlier.

Rai and Clay cheered. If Omi was able to short circuit the Chameleon-Bot, they could move on to the next room.

"Omi...why?"

Rai froze. That voice. It was, no doubt about it, Kimiko. But that was impossible. Kimiko was Jack's hostage. "OMI! Finish it now!"

Omi looked at Rai for a moment, then nodded. The monk pulled a blue sphere from his robes. "Orb of Tornami ICE!"

A column of ice turned the water from Omi's Wudai Neptune WATER into solid ice, freezing the Chameleon-Bot (still in the form of Kimiko) to the wall.

"Take that, tin can!" Omi said as he stowed the Orb of Tornami back in his robes.

"Nice one, Omi!" commented Rai as the door to the next room slid open.

"After Hannibal Bean and his Moby Morpher, this was a part of dessert!"

"Piece of cake."

"That too."