Chapter 3: Two Time Machines
"Guess we have to hope that Jack'll be able to stop that monkey," Clay said.
"Like that'll happen. I say we go and find those guys," said Raimundo.
"And how do you propose we do that, genius?" Kimiko asked. While the monks argued amongst themselves, Wuya slipped away unnoticed.
"Um… we could help, ya know," Kim said. Suddenly the monks realized that she was there.
"Oh… yeah. Right," Kimiko said.
Meanwhile, at Drakken's lair…
"Monkey Fist!" Drakken exclaimed. "I didn't expect to see you again so soon." Then Drakken noticed Jack Spicer behind him. "What are you doing with that kid?"
"It's a long story," Monkey Fist answered with a smirk. "The point is, I now have ultimate monkey power!" He let out an evil laugh that was much like a monkey screeching, and the Monkey Amulet around his neck began to glow. Jack and Drakken backed away from him slowly, afraid of what he was going to do next. Jack backed up against a counter.
"Uh, nice monkey," he whimpered.
It didn't take long for Monkey Fist to calm down. "Actually, the reason I came here was because I knew you had a time machine…" Monkey Fist pointed to Drakken. "…and I have something that might be of use to you." With that, Monkey Fist held out the Eye of Dashi.
"Hey! I have a time machine too!" Jack shouted.
Monkey Fist stared blankly at Jack. "Too bad. Eye of Dashi!" Monkey Fist shot lightning at Jack, pushing him back into the wall. Then he threw the Eye of Dashi to Drakken. Drakken barely caught it.
"Aha! The perfect power source!" Drakken exclaimed. He ran to the place where his time machine had fallen and opened a compartment in the back. "Eye of Dashi!" He placed the Wu in the machine and closed the compartment. Jack was just starting to recover from the shock.
"What, no thank you?" Monkey Fist asked with mock disappointment. He teleported in front of Drakken and snatched the time machine away, then teleported to the middle of the room. "I guess that means I can take it back! With this time machine under my control, I'll be able to take over the world! Hahahahaha!" He pushed a button on the machine, and it began to spark. Drakken just stared in amazement and confusion. The machine began flashing, and after a few seconds the eyes began to glow blue.
"Now, if you don't mind, I'm off to change history," Monkey Fist declared. The eyes on the machine became red, and a portal opened in front of Monkey Fist. By this time, Jack had figured out where he was.
"Hey! My time machine!" he shouted. He leapt at Monkey Fist with the help of his helipack, but Monkey Fist had already gone through the portal. It closed, and Jack landed on his face.
"Smooth," Drakken commented. "Well, back to my latest scheme." He walked toward his computer screen.
Jack looked up at him from the floor. "Wait… you're not gonna do anything?"
Drakken looked back at him. "Why should I? It's not like it has a direct effect on me."
"Dude, the guy just walked away with your technology! Plus he's gonna try to take over the world! What kind of evil genius are you?"
"I hate to say it, but I'm with the kid. Is it really that meaningless to you?" Shego asked.
"Well…" Drakken had to think for a few seconds. "…I suppose Kim Possible will just stop him."
"Hello genius… he can be anywhere in time! Don't ya think he'll be smart enough to avoid her?" Shego asked.
"Oh, well then… that could be a problem… but how can we stop him?"
"We still have my time machine," Jack muttered. "Too bad it doesn't have any power…"
"You're no help," Drakken told Jack. "Isn't there some time traveling Shen Gong Wu or something we can use?"
"Yeah, I suppose there are the Sands of Time… the only problem being that it was taken to the future."
"Oh… like I was supposed to know that?"
"I thought you might've figured it out!"
"Uh, guys, hello… bigger problems here," Shego interrupted.
"Right… how do we power a time machine?" Drakken asked rhetorically. He and Jack both wracked their brains for a solution.
"Wow… two stupid geniuses in one room," Shego muttered to herself.
"I've got it!" Jack exclaimed. "You're girlfriend's plasma…" Before Jack could finish, he found himself facing a glowing green hand.
"I'm not his girlfriend," Shego said menacingly.
"Um, right… got it…" Jack gave her two thumbs up and backed away from Shego. "Anyway… can't we use your glowy stuff to power my machine?"
"No way. There's no way you're hooking me up to a machine… and besides, I don't even know if I have enough power." Shego's hands went back to normal as she backed away from Jack.
"Dang… wait a sec! What about that red haired girl?" Jack asked.
"Kim Possible? What about her?" Drakken responded.
"She's got that computer guy, right? I bet he could figure something out."
"Yeah right… we don't need his help," said Shego.
"Wait… he may have a point, Shego." Drakken stepped over to his computer screen and pushed a button. Shego gave him a questioning glance. "I have Wade on speed dial," he explained. Her confused expression became that of disgust. "What?" She continued to give him a look. He went into a defensive stance. "…Sometimes we play online chess. He has no idea who I am." Shego shrugged.
Wade's face appeared on the screen. "Drakken! First off, how did you manage to contact me? And second, what do you want?" he asked.
"Um, yes… we need your help…" Before Drakken could say anything else, a diagonal line appeared on the screen, separating Wade from Kim.
"Hey Wade… Drakken?" she exclaimed, almost dropping the Kimmunicator. Various shouts of surprise came from the background and Ron appeared behind her.
"Dude… what's Drakken doing there? Are you, like, playing chess or something?" he asked.
"Um, Dr. D… I think it's time to close the link and forget this ever happened," Shego said, tapping him on the shoulder. Drakken hit a button and the screen went blank.
"What did he want, Wade?" Kim asked.
"He said they needed help. Get this… Jack Spicer was in his lair. That means…"
"Monkey Fist was there!" Ron exclaimed.
"Exactly. I'm guessing Monkey Fist did something to Drakken, but I have no idea what."
"Think we should call them back?" Kim asked.
"Nah, he probably won't help us now. All we can do is try to figure out where Monkey Fist is and what he's doing. I'll keep searching."
"Thanks anyway, Wade," Kim said. She closed the link and addressed the Xiaolin monks. "So, now what?"
There was a flash of light, and an older version of Kim walked up to them. She answered the younger Kim's question. "We have to find Monkey Fist."
Back at Drakken's lair, Shego was watching TV and flipping through the channels. Drakken and Jack had come up with nothing.
"Man, this is hard! I give up!" Jack whined.
"Sounds like a plan," Shego commented. She wasn't even paying attention.
"Wait…" Drakken scratched his head furiously. Then his eyes lit up. "These Shen Gong Wu… they give off some sort of energy signature, right?"
Jack shrugged. "Yeah. I guess I've been able to track Wu with machines before…"
"Well then, perhaps we could use your technology to track the Eye of Dashi!"
"Nah… I don't think it'll work from another time period."
"It's worth a try," Drakken said determinedly. He got up and started pacing the room.
Later that night, at the Xiaolin temple…
A red portal flashed open in the Shen Gong Wu vault, and Monkey Fist stepped out of it. "Now to put my plan into action," he said to himself. He began looking through the shelves.
A machine Jack was working on began beeping. Shego had been sleeping on the couch with a magazine over her face, and when she heard the noise, she jumped up into a fighting stance. "Hey Drakken! I've got something!" Jack called to the other room. Drakken rushed into the room with the look of an overexcited child on his face.
"What is it?" he asked eagerly.
"The scanner is picking up something a few hours from now. Looks like the Monkey Staff," Jack responded.
"Wow… the kid did something right," Shego commented.
"Hey! I heard that!" Jack whined.
"Where is it?" Drakken interrupted.
"In the Xiaolin Temple vault! That guy is stealing MORE Wu! As if he doesn't have enough!" Jack ranted.
"Let's go," Drakken said. "Shego, get the hover car ready."
"Uh, Dr. D… hate to break it to ya, but they're all away around the world."
Drakken slapped his forehead. "You tell me this now?"
"I thought it was obvious. I mean, they're monks from China. China. You know where that is, right?" Shego mocked. Drakken ignored her and paced the room. After a few seconds, he came up with a plan.
With an evil grin, he addressed Shego. "Shego… do you think you could stop by Dementor's lair for me?"
Two hours later, at the Xiaolin temple…
"What's happening?" Kim exclaimed.
"I'll explain everything in time," said the older version of her. "Right now, we have company."
"Where?" Ron looked around. It was then that Kimiko's cell phone went off.
"Girl, you still haven't changed that ring tone?" Raimundo asked.
"Shut it, Rai." Kimiko answered the phone, and in a flash of light, Drakken, Shego, and Jack Spicer appeared in the room with them. Kim and the monks were taken aback, but they got themselves together quickly and prepared to defend themselves. The older Kim remained seated.
"Don't worry," she said. "They're not here to harm us."
The villains stared at the older version of Kim. "What's going on here?" Drakken said out loud.
"We could ask you the same thing," Omi replied, maintaining his position. "What are the three of you doing here?"
"We came to warn you that Monkey Fist is going to try to steal your Shen Gong Wu," Jack explained.
"Looks like I beat you here," the older Kim said. "I was gonna say the same thing. And as far as I know, there's nothing we can do to stop him."
The normal Kim stared at her. "What are you talking about?"
"You've probably already guessed, but I'm from the future. Tonight, Monkey Fist will steal the Shadow of Fear along with a few other Shen Gong Wu, and in a few years he'll use them to take over the world."
"Can't we just stop him tonight?" the young Kim asked.
"We could try, but he has the power of teleportation as well as Drakken's time machine." Everybody gave Drakken a dirty look. He just smiled sheepishly.
"Wait… if monkey boy has the time machine, then how did you get here?" Shego asked.
"I used Jack's machine. Apparently Monkey Fist activated it with the Eye of Dashi. Don't ask me why… not even Wade can figure it out. I managed to sneak into Jack's lab and use it before Fist could stop me."
What with all the explaining going on, nobody noticed Jack sneaking off to the temple vault. "He can't steal anything if I do it first," he mumbled to himself.
"Does anyone else here feel like we've done this before?" Ron asked abruptly. Everyone's gaze turned to him. "I mean, something about the whole time travel thing seems familiar. Don't you feel it, Kim?"
"I think the buffoon is on to something," Drakken added. "Monkey Fist, Killigan and I had teamed up to find some sort of monkey idol. That's all I remember, except that the monkey was supposed to grant the power of time travel. That's why I made the time machine Monkey Fist now has."
"Wait, hold on a second," Kim interrupted. "I think that before we go any further, everybody should share whatever information they have that'll make this easier to understand." Everybody agreed, and the group began discussing.
Meanwhile, Jack had reached the vault. He was about to open one of the drawers when he disappeared in a flash of light. He found himself in a huge chamber with pillars that resembled trees and monkey ninjas lining the walls. In front of him was a giant wooden chair, and on the chair sat…
Monkey Fist.