And How The Times Have Changed Thee (Version 2)

by FlashtheFireFox

An Updated Version of a story I previously posted: It had been Seven Years since Jack had last seen the Monks or the Heylin side and a lot has changed in that time. When Chase discovers how much Jack has changed over the years he becomes interested enough to offer him a proposition. Will he take it and if he does will it be more than just a student and teacher relationship?

1. Chapter 1

Author's Notes:

1. I do not own Xiaolin Showdown but I do love the show. There are some characters mentioned in this chapter that I own but I never name them so they're not overly important in my opinion. One character in particular will be named later is a character from a book I have written, though she's much younger in this fanfiction than she is in my book.

2. This fanfiction is an updated version of a story that I had started writing in 2014 and stopped working on in 2016 due to a lack of time and inspiration. Unfortunately I lost the original files and thus have no other choice but to post an entirely new version of the story that was copied and pasted from the original and then edited. Hopefully this version will be grammatically correct and have less errors overall.

3. This particular fanfiction does have characters from the new version of the show (Shadow and Ping Pong to be specific) in it but is, for the most part, based on the original series because that is what I first watched and personally enjoy more; though there are some parts of the newer version I did enjoy. With that in mind I should also tell you that though this is based more on the original series this fanfiction does take place a few years in the future and the characters will thus be older then they were in the show. Author's Note 1: This fanfiction is an updated version of a story that I had started writing in 2014 and stopped working on in 2016 due to a lack of time and inspiration. Unfortunately I lost the original files and thus have no other choice but post an entirely new version of the story.

4. The original version of this fanfiction was inspired by CrystallicSky who has written several Chack (Jack and Chase pairing) fanfictions, I still consider them to be amazing all these years later. With their permission I have based some of the ideas in my fanfiction off of CrystallicSky's work but have taken time to make sure to add my own ideas as to not copy their work completely.

5. There will be Yaoi later in this fanfiction, if that makes you uncomfortable then I highly suggest you don't read.

For those that don't mind I sincerely hope you enjoy my fanfiction.

Anyway enough with my yapping, let's move on to the story Shall we; I hope you enjoy.

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Seven years had passed since he had last seen any of the monks or any of the Heylin side for that matter, Wuya had ditched him long ago, and the other two lead Heylin members could have cared less for him. None of the lesser villains he had encountered compared to the top dogs but nonetheless they'd had no interest in teaming up with him when he'd asked, well begged but same thing really.

Knowing he'd never last alone he'd been forced to give up completing his goals the way he'd originally intended, this however did not stop him from trying to complete them. The first few weeks had been hard but then after forcing himself to calm down and think he had realized that if he worked on them more and really tried the inventions he'd been using for years and possibly others could be used to further help him in his goals.

A few days after he'd calmed down enough… that's all it had taken to figure out how to upgrade his work, take the bugs out, and make sure he could start the process of making better equipment. His mother had been very supportive when he had finally come out of his room, after months of having locked himself away to work, and told her about the work he had done and how he wanted to start his own his business; his father had hated it but thankfully his mother had quickly put the old bastard in his place.

He wanted to feel bad when his parents fought, when they decided enough was enough and split apart, but the fact that months later his mother had somehow managed to get practically everything his father had once owned and it had been she that remained the elites' favorite greatly amused him. Thanks to her it took him only a year to be invited to parties where, along with the help of the fact that despite events his last name remained the same, he was able to gain enough interest in his projects that he gained enough money to start up a company all by himself.

Year two rolled in and though a new blood in the corporate field he found himself already starting to do well, he still occasionally missed seeing the monks and the old battles he'd been in but between working on his product more to starting getting bigger fish to bite and the parties he had attend to kiss ass and thus gain even more attention drove thoughts of the old days in the background. It was at one of these parties that he'd met her, the most beautiful creature with the bluest eyes he'd ever laid eyes on.

Even his not so secret teenage crush on Ashley, who hated being called by her real name when he did occasionally see her, could not hold a candle to the goddess he had met.

Wooing her wasn't easy, she was as clever as he was; if not more so at times, thankfully making friends with her tall black haired brother had helped calm her fire slightly. Still he'd found gaining her approval hard, he'd learned quickly that she was not one for presents; instead he had to find other clever ways of capturing her attention.

Finally though the first battle had been won when at one party she'd decided, without her brother's coaxing, to sit by him and though thrilled he'd not talked to her as to show her that she was not the only one that could play hard to get. Eventually both had been driven mad by each other and the conversations had started, they'd discovered that they shared many things in common and for the things they didn't they agreed to disagree.

Their friendship grew quickly and after a while there was hardly a day when the two didn't speak to one another, without any assistance from outside forces the friends slowly became a couple. By the second year's end the two agreed that they wanted more but this had been where the trouble had started, as year three arrived he'd agreed that it was time for him to meet more than her brother.

She had met his mother, who had been thrilled to hear he'd found someone; and now he was to meet her parents. Up till now he'd never ever heard her mention her parents and neither had his brother, still sensing the topic was a sensitive one he'd not pressed the issue with her. The day came and he rode up to the gorgeous home he could only assume belonged to her parents, up until this moment he had realized that the house she stayed in and always invited him to was her brother's and was nervous as she led him inside.

To his surprise upon meeting her mother he was warmly greeted and invited in, everything seemed normal and for a while the three of them were happy… until her father decided to show up. Had he not met people that could sometimes be worse he would have decided that her father was the devil himself, still even the Heylin he was thinking of had more honor than this man could ever have and that was saying something.

Her father had stumbled drunkenly into the room they'd been happily chatting away in, spotted him, and had demanded angrily that he leave in a not so polite fashion. He had argued with the man and so had she but this only made her father angry, the devil had grabbed her and had dared to start to try to harm her.

This of course had been unexpected and as her boyfriend had eagerly protected her, though he'd end up with a bloody nose and bruised to the point he'd thought he might actually have to go to the hospital, it had been worth being able to protect the one he loved. Her mother had to pull her father off him, and as he had been dragged off to get himself medical help her father had the gall to threaten her further by saying that if his daughter decided to marry him he'd kill them both. He hadn't taken it serious then and neither had she but nonetheless that had been the last encounter with the awful man she was forced to claim as her father that he'd had. With both her mother and brother's approval, as well as the approval of his own mother, he and the woman he loved went off and married in secret.

It wasn't a big wedding by any stretch of the imagination and nor had it been overly fancy but nonetheless was one of the happiest moments of his life, certainly the honeymoon afterwards made things all the more fun for them.

As the three weeks of freedom passed the newlyweds headed back and, despite the insistence from both his mother and her brother to wait a while before doing so, he bought them a nice house from which they could both get to their respectable jobs and see each other at the same time when they had time off. By the end of the month he could tell something was wrong and so could she, she was getting ill constantly and finally after much insistence of his Mother, his Mother in Law, and her brother's she agreed to go see the doctor with him.

He wasn't sure what he'd been expecting the doctor to tell him but the news they were given was both shocking and at the same time thrilling, his mother as well as hers had squealed with joy at the news and to his great joy his wife was also thrilled. Despite his pleading his wife had insisted that he had to go back to work, he found this hard; however as the days went by and her stomach rounded and slowly but surely he found that when he touched it he could feel small movements.

More time passed and one day as he worked in office his secretary came in and informed him that it was time, he had rushed to the hospital feeling both very excited as well very nervous at the same time.

There had been no fuss when he ran into the delivery room, one of the perks of having his family name, and he had held his wife's hand the whole time. The experience of watching his wife in pain was not something he liked at all but as the doctor helped her deliver he found himself very excited to see what gender his firstborn was, they had left it a surprise and he knew that he wasn't the only one who was excited to find out.

When the doctor told them it was a girl he found himself pleased, though admittedly he did eventually want a boy he was happy nonetheless with a girl because his mother had told him stories of how he had been as a child and they weren't all good ones.

As the doctor had handed his wife their little girl he couldn't help but feel slightly bad for her, she had inherited his skin tone and hair color and he was worried that she also would have his eye color which like it had in his case would make her a target for bullying. Much to his relief and to astonishment as his daughter opened her tiny eyes he discovered that his little one had inherited her mother's gorgeous blue eyes, it was as these tiny little eyes looked up at him curiously that all his worries melted instantaneously and he had fallen in love with her.

His wife had smiled, she had known how it felt but before they could have a moment the doctor had interrupted and had asked them if they had chosen a name which indeed they had. It was a long name and frankly a bit odd unless one knew what meaning it held for them, and though the doctor didn't say anything both he and his wife could tell that doctor thought them odd for naming their daughter what they had.

This however did not concern them as their family members understood the slight joke behind their daughter's name, besides they were both aware that with their combined intellect infused with their daughter; along with the fact that she had inherited certain features from him that her name wasn't the only thing that might cause her trouble. Still both weren't worried, there would be years before teasing could possibly become an issue and both wanted to enjoy the time they had before then.

Year four and five were two of the best years of his life next to having been married in the third year, in year four and five so many new things had happened that changed his life for. The first part of the fourth year had been the roughest part for the both of them but then they had expected nothing less as they brought their newborn daughter home, in reality it wasn't the fact that their daughter cried a lot at night; in fact she was a very quiet baby which had concerned them at first but they quickly discovered was a blessing in disguise his mother, as well as her own in secret, came over at first to help them learn what being a parent took; things like learning how to feed their daughter and change her were things they had learned in the classes they had been forced to take but nonetheless the help from their mothers were appreciated.

Learning to change diapers on their own after their mothers had decided them ready for the task, had not been pleasant at first; thankfully after a while there were only a few occasions when both of them gagged in disgust. Bathing the baby was another task they had learned from their mothers and was a task both parents enjoyed, watching even such a little baby play was a sight both were glad they could see.

Thankfully both of them were able to do their respective work at home without too much fuss, when one of them did actually have to go into work it was usually to fix some stupid mistake that most their workers agreed should have been able to fix by those who were supposed to have been in charge. On the very rare occasion when both of them had to work at the same time one of their mothers or perhaps her brother would come over to watch the baby, they had both agreed that a nanny they didn't know just simply wouldn't do until little girl wouldn't do until she was old enough to call them if she need them.

Though the moments they were forced to miss were precious they didn't force any of their relatives to record them, instead the moments they did get to see were made all the more precious. Halfway through the fourth year, the first with their beautiful little girl, both were shocked to discover that his wife's brother was getting married to his longtime girlfriend.

Of course they had both been thrilled to hear this news and had the decision had immediately been made that despite not being able to walk yet their daughter would be the flower girl. Sadly, as had been the case with their wedding her brother's engagement had to be left a secret from his and his sister's monster of a father; they had waited until the old devil was out of the country before the wedding had been held.

Seeing his daughter in her cute little dress and wheeling her up to the altar with his wife had been a joyous event, and playing with her along with the newlyweds had been even more fun. When his wife's brother learned that he was expecting a week or so after the honeymoon had ended there was teasing from both him and his wife and from both their mothers as well, still everyone was overjoyed and in the middle of the year their daughter had a new boy cousin to play with. He wasn't bitter that his brother in law had had a boy, he loved his little girl very much and wouldn't trade her for anything; in fact he very quickly discovered that his little girl was very special…though of course he realized that all parents thought that of their children.

This however was a different case, their daughter had progressed far faster than anyone had expected and by year old the little girl could already talk in small words and had an understanding things a one year old just wasn't supposed to be able to do; the little girl loved to draw and loved building things, though not perfect at it obviously her skills were nonetheless impressive.

By the fifth year, or in other words year two of their little girl's life, she could walk, talk in almost complete sentences and her reading skills were already starting to develop. She could draw or build elaborate things, she was still only two however and both parents encouraged their daughter to play like a normal girl her age would. Eventually after the instance from even his brother and law, he and his wife had agreed that they should give their daughter an IQ test; both however were shocked to discover that their brilliant daughter had an even higher IQ then he'd had as a boy.

Of course they had been thrilled to discover this but knew that a long road ahead of them, sure enough not long after the test they had been encouraged to put their daughter in school, however, nor thinking her ready he and his wife made the decision to tutor her themselves for a bit. They were both pleased with how she progressed, never forgetting that she was still only two; he loved spending time with both his wife and daughter and watching as his baby grew up made him think that things would be wonderful forever…and for the rest of his second year with his wife and daughter it was.

Unfortunately near the end of the second year things started to go from great to bad, how the monster found out about their union and their little girl he had no idea; but one day as he was returning home from a rough day of fixing a mess that had occurred at his company thanks to a now fired worker, he found himself being pinned to a nearby wall and threatened by the awful man.

He had been warned to watch himself, warned that he and his wife would die and that their daughter would be forced to watch him suffer, of course he had helped free by the police and the monster had been taken away and he had decided that with the help of his security guards he wouldn't have to worry about the old devils threats…if only he had been more worried.

It happened on New Year's, they had all decided to get a party being held at his wife's brother's house, everything was fine and they were all having fun as the countdown started when suddenly the lights went off and they were forced to stumble around trying to get the power on. He never saw it coming but the last thing he remembered before hearing a gun go off in the darkness was the feeling of being hit at the back of his head, he could vaguely feel himself being lifted up and being carried away but there was nothing he could do about it.

As he had awoken on the six year he immediately knew something was wrong, he heard yelling and once his head cleared enough he realized that he was tied up and heard the monster yelling something about killing the wrong person.

The words were like poison to his ears, he couldn't accept what he knew was true but there was no denying the fact as he looked around and spotted his daughter being forcefully held by the monster but saw that his wife was nowhere in sight. He wanted to cry, to scream and shout but he couldn't speak because he had been gagged, what was even worse was his daughter was in danger and there was nothing he could do about it.

The thought that his wife was dead thanks to her own father disgusted him but the thought of losing his daughter too was not one he cared to think about, thus when the monster ordered the gag to be removed so he could speak his final words before being tortured he wasted no time pleading for the monster to keep his daughter alive and also pleading for him to take her out of the room while they tortured him.

He was relieved to hear that the monster had planned on keeping his little girl alive but was gagged again before he could protest the fact that the monster wasn't going to grant his request to take his daughter out of the room because the monster claimed that he wanted to make sure she knew to obey him and would fear what might happen if she didn't.

He tried his hardest not to scream or to thrash so his little one wasn't scared but as the torture increased this task grew harder and harder, eventually the pain caught up with him and his ability to hold in his screams started to slowly went out the window. For a brief second he, despite the pain, somehow opened his eyes to look at his precious little girl in the hopes that shed see how sorry he was that he'd failed her; as he opened his eyes however he saw her crying, saw the tears her beautiful blue eyes that matched her mother's and couldn't help the sudden rush of fury that filled him.

What happened next he honestly didn't know for sure because the pain from the torture maid pass out, all he remembered was the whole room suddenly started shaking, the lights flickered and finally he noticed certain other objects that seemed to acting strangely. Of course there had been no time to think about why all of these things were happening as he had passed out and upon waking and finding himself in a new place he found a whole set of new questions in his head.

He was no longer chained up any more; though he was in a very odd looking cell, he felt dizzy and couldn't do anything as one of the devil's men came into his cell. He was shocked when the men who had come into his cell told him that the devil had decided to keep him alive; they didn't go into detail as to why but did say that if he wanted to keep himself, as well as his poor little girl, alive he would do as he was told.

Of course he wanted nothing more than to keep his daughter alive and had agreed to obey, secretly though he started to plot a way to free both himself and his daughter from the grasps of the monster. Things didn't change much over next few days except for the fact that instead of being tortured constantly the monster's men started to do strange experiments on him, poking, prodding, and injecting him with strange things which frankly wasn't any more fun than being tortured had been.

Nonetheless, despite the pain all the experiments brought he cooperated; in doing so he kept his daughter safe but though that was what was most important he also discovered other less important reasons why cooperating was a good thing.

The first of these less important reasons was discovering that his brother in law had gotten away as had his family and his mother in law and his own mother, this gave him and his daughter ties to his wife other than his monster of a father in law. The second reason cooperating was a good thing was after about a week or two he was allowed to make sure his company running, true he wasn't allowed to actually talk to anyone at his company personally but nonetheless when one of the monster's men would come in and ask what to tell them he would slip in secret codes that he knew only certain members of his company would get in the hopes that they'd be able to at least save his daughter.

Unfortunately no one had saved her yet but he held up hope that someone would, in the meantime one of the other important things that came from cooperating was the fact that he was allowed to work on building things; true he was supervised every time he built something but still it was nice to have time free of experiments so he could plot on how to get his daughter and himself free.

The last reason cooperating was a good thing was that after a while he started to realize that the reason all these experiments were being done was because they were looking for something, what this something was he didn't know for sure yet…all he knew at first was it had something to do with what had happened on the night he had been being tortured. He pondered what this something was, tried to remember what had happened and tried to make sense of why his life had been spared after that night.

When he wasn't thinking about that he was thinking about his daughter and wondering, even though the excruciating pain of the experiments he was put through, if she was being treated well. The one thing that aggravated him above all else was when the monster actually did come to observe the experiments, which was rare, he didn't bring his little girl with and only briefly mentioned the fact that she was still being cared for.

Whilst it was good to know that his daughter was safe it was maddening to not be able to see her at least once which is why halfway through the year when his routine changed he didn't complain, because he was told if he kept cooperating he'd get a moment with his daughter at the New Years beginning.

The change in routine was slight but nonetheless strange. A new man that had not been taking care of him previously suddenly started coming into his cell and asking him very odd questions about the one thing he'd never expected the monster to care about… the years before his company and family.
Of course when this had first started answering these questions he had been sure the man sent to ask him them would go off and tell the monster that he was either lying or crazy but to his surprise this never occurred, in fact he was shocked when the man started coming in more frequently.

When they had reached the part about the monks and the objects he'd once fought over with them as well as some of the other Heylin he was again shocked that the questions didn't stop, he was even more shocked when the man had asked if he'd be able to find one of the objects for the monster. Of course the last thing he wanted was for the monster to have one of the objects but after everything he'd been through the same promise of being able to see his daughter caused him to agree to at least try.

For the first time in months he was allowed almost complete privacy, or at least that's the way it seemed to his tired brain. In no time at all he had the device built but just as he wondered when they would come get it and the monster would keep his promise his room had been stormed and he realized for the first time as he was bound, gagged, and led away, that he had allowed himself to be tricked. He didn't know how they managed to do it but somehow they found a way to keep him docile enough to be taken anywhere they wanted, though unable to fight them from killing him if they decided to for some reason they had to keep him alive.

The rest of the year he spent being taken care of but not being able to move or do anything but want they wanted, he had gotten used to the dark quiet box, or whatever he was in, and had almost accepted the fact that he'd never see the light of day again…when suddenly everything changed.

Seven years had passed since he had last seen any of the monks or any of the Heylin side for that matter, despite this fact and the fact that they had obviously all changed as well, as his box was wheeled to wherever he was being taken, he knew heard oddly familiar voices and for the first time in a while his eyes flashed open as he realized what was likely happening. It wasn't just the monks he heard, the apprentice of his childhood idol was there too though he didn't hear her master anywhere, he also heard Wuya as well as a certain bean he hated mocking whoever had his confined cage for lugging around.

He heard the person wheeling him around saying something about the fact that someone, aka him, was in the box and that they would be shocked to see who was inside as they had once known him. Of course he knew the Heylin could care less but it was oddly refreshing to hear the monks gasp in shock and horror upon hearing someone was in the box.

He grew a bit bored for a minute when the man wheeling him around started to talk about the experiments but suddenly his interest was piqued when the man told them all they had found something that they were surprised the Monks and Heylin had never noticed before. He didn't have a chance to wonder what on earth the man was talking about because suddenly was shocked by the feeling of something he hadn't felt for a while…the freedom of his arms, legs, and all his body parts, being freed.

His shock from this couldn't fully set in however he heard the man say that it was time for the monks and Heylin to see who the old friend in the box was and before he could brace himself the door to his cage opened and light poured in blinding him because of how long he'd been kept in there. As his eyes adjusted to the brightness he heard gasps from even the Heylins, finally as he regained his vision after a few blinks he heard a name he hadn't heard in a whole year.

"Jack… is that really you?" the voice of Kimiko asked, sounding very shocked indeed as she saw him.