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Xiaolin Showdown: The Legend of the Thunder Child
54: Evacuation Rush
The laugh echoed around the room, making everyone nervous.
"Okay, I'm guessing that Chase isn't dead" said Raimundo as he looked around the room.
"You wouldn't think I would let you leave alive?" boomed Chase's voice.
"Reveal yourself Chase Young!" demanded Omi.
"I would…" said Chase's voice "But Ryan had destroyed my body, I'm only alive because of the Low Mang Lone Soup"
"Well whatever" said Ryan "We're leaving!"
"I don't think so" said Chase's voice; the whole area suddenly began to shake violently.
"Uh oh!" gasped Clay "Earthquake!"
"I made you with my own flesh and blood…" said Chase's voice "You could have had a great future with me…"
"Up to now, my life has revolved around my past and future" said Ryan "I'm tired of all that, it's time I begin to live in the present!"
Chase laughed again as the room shook violently again, this time it was even stronger.
"So be it then, Ryan" said Chase "May your past, present and future end her, today!"
The room began to shake again, but this time it shook so hard, the whole lair began to collapse. Chase laughed again as they struggled to stay on their feet.
"How ironic…" laughed Chase "I gave you life Ryan, and now I will take it away!"
"WHOA!" cried Ryan as he barely dodged a falling boulder.
"Let the ruins of my lair become your graves!" said Chase.
"He's trying to bury us alive!" yelled Raimundo "Let's get the hell out of her!"
"What about the Shadow of Fear?" said Kimiko as Ryan grabbed her arm and pulled her to the door.
"Forget it!" said Ryan "It no longer works on me!"
They all sprinted out of the room and shot down the corridor.
"The quickest way out is to the left!" shouted Ryan over the sound of crashing rubble. They ran to the left, but were stopped in there tracks when the corridor in front of them collapsed.
"Okay…" sighed Ryan "The quickest way out is now to the right"
They ran at top speed, darting left and right to avoid the falling rocks.
"Whoa!" gasped Clay as he skidded to halt, narrowly avoiding being squashed by a falling pillar, "This place is coming down faster that a one legged cowboy in a line dance!"
"Let's just keep moving!" said Kimiko. The eventually came to the room where the path split into three, two of the passageways were already blocked with rubble and the area they were in was slowly filling up with rubble.
"Damn it!" yelled Ryan as he skidded to a halt in the middle of the room, "The quickest way out has been blocked…again!"
"Just shut up and go!" yelled Raimundo as he ran ahead of Ryan, through the unblocked passageway.
"Rai!" called Clay as he and Omi sped after him "Wait up!"
"Come on, Ryan! Kimiko!" called Omi as he looked back at Ryan and Kimiko, "If you do not hurry, you will be cooked bread!"
"Toast, Omi!" called Raimundo from further on ahead. Ryan and Kimiko went after him; Ryan was first through passageway with Kimiko close behind him. The roof ahead began to crumble, and a part of it began to fall. Upon seeing this, Ryan shifted into top gear. He ran at top speed and dived under the falling roof, the rubble just barely touching him. Kimiko however, didn't see the falling roof in time and her path was cut off by the rubble.
"Ah!" cried Kimiko as she fell to the ground, curling herself up to shield herself from the falling Rubble.
"Kimiko!" cried Ryan as he turned around, but because he was travelling at top speed, he skidded quite far before he stopped.
"I'm okay…" called Kimiko from behind the rubble; she stood up, shaking the dust out of her hair.
"Come on!" called Ryan "We can worry about your hair later!"
Kimiko was about to climb over the rubble, when an ear splitting noise filled the passageway. Kimiko looked up at the ceiling and gasped, the entire roof was coming loose. A huge bolder, large enough to crush a car, fell from the roof. Kimiko screamed as the rock sped towards her.
"Kimiko!" yelled Ryan as he dived at her. Kimiko knew that it was too late; the rock was within seconds of crushing them both. She felt Ryan's arms wrap around her waist and his shoulder pushing her back, but because of the cramp spaces of the passageway they didn't move very far. She closed her eyes as she waited for the rock to crush them flat, her scream echoing down the corridor was so loud, she didn't hear Ryan mutter something under his breath.
Kimiko had her eyes closed tightly and her arms were wrapped around Ryan's, squeezing him so hard, she almost crushed his ribs. She clenched her teeth and waited for the end…seconds passed, she felt nothing, but she could still feel Ryan holding her tightly. More seconds passed and Kimiko still hasn't felt the blunt force of the bolder land on her.
"Are we…dead?" though Kimiko as she opened on of her eyes, Ryan was still alive and breathing and so was she.
"What the hell?" thought Kimiko as she tried to stand up, as she got up she hit her head on something.
"OW!" groaned Kimiko as she rubbed her head and looked up, her jaw dropped in awe at what she saw. The boulder was inches above her, floating in midair. She looked around and saw there were other pieces of rubble floating in midair. She moved her arm to get a better view and try and work out what was going on, and she knocked a rock off a pile of rubble. He gasped as she watched the rock fall, slow down, and then stop in midair.
"Kimiko?" said Ryan as he let Kimiko go, "Are you okay?"
"What's going on?" said Kimiko "Everything has frozen! It's if time has stopped!"
"It has" said Ryan grinning at her, "I took one of Chase's Wu"
His hand went behind his back and he pulled out the Shard of Lighting.
"Ryan, you saved me again" said Kimiko as she threw her arms around him. There was a quiet rumbling noise as the bolder above them began to slowly fall down.
"Time's speeding up again!" said Ryan "Reward me later!"
Ryan got to his feet, pulled Kimiko to hers and ran down the corridor; they turned a corner just in time to hear the rest of the roof came down.
"Where the hell have you guys been?" said Raimundo as Ryan and Kimiko caught up with the others.
"Where do we go now?" panicked Omi as he ran around the room, evading falling rocks.
"Hold your horses!" said Ryan as he walked past them "The exit is right over there!"
Ryan pointed to a passageway; the all ran towards it, only to crash into a pile of rubble crashed through the roof.
"Okay…" groaned Ryan as staggered back from the wall of rubble, "Let's go that way…"
He pointed to another passageway, but before they even moved towards it, more rubble crashed into the passageway blocking it.
"Uh oh…" said Ryan as he watched the passageway that they entered through collapse as well, "Looks like were trapped…"
There was more rumbling as the entire roof began to crumble above them.
"Ahhhhhh!" cried Omi as he continued to run around the room.
"Looks like Chase got us this time" sighed Clay.
"Aww man!" groaned Raimundo "I hate it when Chase does this!"
"Ryan…" said Kimiko as she looked at Ryan, "This is it…"
"Didn't think it would end like this…" said Ryan as he held her in his arms. Kimiko sighed as she rested her head on his chest.
"I just wish I could have spent more time with you" said Kimiko.
"Me too Kimiko" said Ryan "Me too"
The roof was seconds away from collapsing, when suddenly a purple vortex appeared from nowhere and a familiar voice spoke from the vortex.
"Hey guys! What's up?"
They all looked up at the vortex and gasped; there faces filled with surprise.
"Dojo?"
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