Disclaimer: I don't own Xiaolin Showdown. If I did, I'd just make this into an episode, duhh. XD This goes for the whole fic!

Crash!

As the bomb detonated, rocks started to fall around the entrance to the cave. Jack Spicer laughed, hovering in the air in the middle of the cavern room. "Hahahaha! I'm one step ahead of you this time, Xiaolin losers! You're not going anywhere!"

"Quick, we have to get out of here!" cried Raimundo. "Come on!"

The four of them started dashing for the entrance. Jack was still focusing on his evil laughter, when he was interrupted by Katnappe. "What are you doing!" she shrieked. "You didn't tell me this was part of the plan!"

"Evil villainesses in training are not entitled to such classified information," Jack said loftily.

"When the all-important plan involves getting buried alive, I think I need to know!" Katnappe retorted hotly.

"No!" cried Kimiko, as she saw the entrance blocked off by a rockslide. Jack started laughing evilly again as the last few rocks fell into place.

"Haha! Now you're trapped here… and I'm… trapped too… in the dark." His voice faded from triumphant to a whimper. "I'm afraid of the dark."

"Shut up, Jack," said Wuya scathingly from somewhere in the blackness.

"Just when I thought you could not possibly get any stupider," Chase Young sighed, seemingly unfazed by the fact that he was apparently trapped with the rest of them.

"Well, looks like it's time to bid y'all farewell," said a familiar but thoroughly unexpected voice. "I'll just be off to nab the Bracelet of Loki while you puzzle this problem out."

"Hannibal Bean!" moaned Omi. "When did he get here?"

"Oh, I came with her," Hannibal said. "The gullible little twit! Thought I'd help her snatch the Wu, she did."

"Why, you little…" snarled Wuya.

"Am I the only one under the impression that you came here in search of Shen-Gong-Wu?" said Chase dangerously.

"I want my mommy!" Jack sniffled.

"Clay, maybe you can use your earth powers to get us out of here!" suggested Kimiko.

"Chase Young," Hannibal said mockingly. "I should have destroyed you when I had the chance."

"Can't, little lady," said Clay after a moment's consideration. "The roof's not too stable. It'd collapse on top of us."

"EVERYBODY SHUT DOWN!" cried Omi, startling everyone.

"I think he means shut up," Rai pointed out helpfully after a few moments of stunned silence.

"That too," said Omi. "Listen, we will all need to work together if we are to escape from here. We shall have to place our differences on the grip while we are all trapped."

"You mean put our differences on hold?" said Clay, but he was drowned out by the general clamor and hubbub that had just restarted.

"I am NOT helping him!" Chase and Hannibal shouted in unison at each other.

"Hah! Hear that, Wuya? You'll just have to help me!" Jack said with some semblance of triumph (though his voice was still shaking, presumably from fear of the dark).

"Why should we help you? You got us into this mess!" Wuya retorted.

"Yeah, I agree. All in favor of leaving Jack behind, say aye!" Katnappe called out.

"Aye!" shouted the two female Heylin warriors, joined by Hannibal. Chase merely gave a small snort, and Raimundo got the impression that he thought it was beneath him to join in the outcry.

"There's no need to do that, though," Kimiko said, sounding slightly relieved. "I just remembered. Rai, you've got the Serpent's Tail, don't you?"

There was a very long and uncomfortable silence, before Kimiko's dangerous voice broke through.

"…Rai?"

"Well, I kinda left that one at the temple to make room for the Tongue of Saiping," the Brazilian said quickly. Though it was pitch-black, everyone could tell from his voice that he was cringing. "Don't hurt me!"

"And what use is that in a cave!" Kimiko shrieked. She likely would have gone on longer, had Clay not stopped her.

"Whoa there, pardner! Remember, a loud noise could still trigger a cave-in…"

"Right," muttered Kimiko, but still shot invisible glares at Rai, who was quite glad of the darkness.

"Anyway, I'm feelin' a breeze coming from over this way," said Clay, walking toward the back of the cave to illustrate his point. "Yes, there's an opening. This way."

"The most important thing is that we all stay together," said Omi, unknowingly walking into a separate passage from Clay. "In a place like this, someone could get lost and not even know it!"

To be continued! (Muahaha!)

A/N – Haha, hope you like it. I'll try to finish it – feel free to PM me annoying reminders if I go on a month-long hiatus or something. Since most of my fics are really dark, I decided to give light-hearted humor a try. Please R&R! I hope I kept everyone in-character enough... :)

Oh yes, and please R&R my other XS fic as well ("Final Release"). I'm still kinda not happy with that one, and some good constructive crit would really help.