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Chapter 2: Needs rescuing

Once they got in front of Jack's house they all jumped off Dojo and he shrank back to his small size. They stood out in front of the gates as Kimiko put on the Shroud of Shadows and the Jet Bootsu.

"Good luck," Clay and the others wished her as she went.

Having been there twice she knew exactly where to find Jack's lair in the basement.

Upon arriving to Jack's lair she realized that the whole thing had been cleared out. That's funny, she thought.

She searched the entire house but still no Jack. She left the house in defeat and found the other Dragons outside. Kimiko took off the Shroud of Shadows and sighed.

"He's not there and his lair has been cleared out," She informed them.

"WHAT!" Raimundo shouted his eye twitching a little bit. Here they had come all the way here and there was no Jack!

It was several months later in the dead of winter when they were to next see him. They had been looking for a new wu in Germany and were wandering the streets. They had split and Raimundo and Kimiko were getting rather frustrated.

They crossed into seemingly deserted alleyway only to find it not so deserted. Jack and unknown person were in that alleyway. The quickly ran to one side where they couldn't be seen.

Jack sat by the side of building shivering and stark. His clothes were somewhat tattered and he wore a regular black backpack on his back.

The other figure, a tall boy with short spiky black hair, beautiful dark blue eyes, and a pierced eyebrow, was standing in front of him holding out something they couldn't quite see.

He wore a long dark black trench coat much like Jack's except it had a hood. Under the coat he wore a short tight black shirt with a Green Day logo on it. He had baggy black pants with dark green stitching, and some chains hanging off that looked like they were going to fall off had there not been a black belt with studs to hold them up. On his feet he had large black boots, a studded collar around his neck, and various necklaces.

"Well, Jack, take it and eat you need it," the boy told him and thrust the object into his cold hands. The object was apparently a burger.

"I told you I'm not hungry!" Jack sighed angrily.

"Yes you are, and you know it!" he shouted, fed up with Jack's constant refusal.

"You stole that didn't you!" Jack demanded. When the other didn't reply he yelled, "I didn't program you to steal things!"

Program, Raimundo and Kimiko thought, is that one of Jack's robots?

"Actually you did, remember?" The other stated, seeing Jack quite annoyed. He added, "And besides I don't want you to starve to death."

"You don't want me to starve to death?" Jack shot back madly.

"Of course not!" the unknown boy said.

"Why! I'm no good to anyone," Jack asked, not focusing on other but staring at the ground, "My dad thinks that too."

"Don't say that! Of course I care and you are good to me," the other shouted annoyed at once again having this conversation, "You made me."

So that is a robot! Kimiko thought in surprise.

"Please, please, please eat," the robot begged.

"I don't want to," Jack repeated firmly.

"JACK!" the robot whined and pleaded, "Why won't you eat?"

"You know why!" Jack yelled, raising his voice once more.

That's it Kimiko wanted a clearer view she stepped in a bit closer as quietly as she could. To her surprise the robot whirled around to face her.

"You! What do you guys want!" he snarled. He also saw Raimundo.

"Nice one, Kimi," Raimundo spat under his breath just loud enough for her to hear.

"I said what do you want!" he growled stepping closer to them. Kimiko took a step back in sudden fear, "Haven't you guys taken enough from him?"

"CB, that's enough!" Jack yelled feebly trying to stand, "It's not their fault!"

CB? The Chameleonbot? That's the Chameleonbot both Kimiko and Raimundo thought at once.

CB turned to Jack, worriedly, seeing him trying to stand. He ran over to help Jack up. Jack said nothing to this. He just let CB do it. He didn't care.

He was freezing, hungry, and depressed. In fact depressed was definitely an understatement. What Jack felt like was like death. His own father, that FUCK, whom he hated so much had finally gotten the nerve to kick him out on his ass. He barely had time to gather some things together. It didn't matter he couldn't live with his father much anyway. Jack only stayed because he was afraid to leave... afraid of his father hunting after him and the punishment that would follow. He knew all this too well on account of he had tried it once before. That punishment would always stay in his mind, and on his body as well.

"What's not our fault?" Raimundo asked, walking to Kimiko's side.

"Nothing!" Jack hissed.

"Jack's father kicked him out," CB told them.

"You damn robot!" Jack's growled furiously, he tried to push CB but only succeed on falling on his face.

"JACK!" CB yelled, distressed that his master had fallen on his face and ignored that he had insulted him.

"So that's why you haven't been after the wu!" Raimundo shouted in surprise.

"I'm fine," Jack said feebly to the bot as he helped him up. He half turned to Raimundo and said calmly, "And no. I refused to help Wuya gather shen-gong-wu before I was kicked out. it's not worth it anymore."

"Really," Raimundo snapped in disbelief.

Jack laughed and the sound was so morbid. "The price of life isn't worth it anymore! Not mine anyway."

Jack teetered a little even though he was leaning against CB.

"Jack," CB sighed at Jack's fragile state.

"You're not okay are you?" Kimiko asked with genuine worry.

"Okay!" Jack laughed that laugh again, "I'm just brilliant. Death and I are having a party soon. Sorry to say you can't come... not invited."

"Don't joke like that!" CB yelled desperately.

"If death doesn't come any sooner I'll make him come myself," Jack stated grimly.

"Jack, I think you need some medical attention," Kimiko said staring at him as he teetered again.

"I'm too far gone for that," Jack sighed waving them off.

"You're not dead," Raimundo said eyeing him.

"Not on the outside," Jack sighed, "Not yet anyways. But on the inside I've never been alive. It was all a joke, a big lie, never-ending torment, and eternal damnation. The world is black place you should considered yourselves lucky. I'd die a million and one times to have your lives."

"You don't really think that?" Kimiko asked in surprise.

"Of course I do," Jack sighed. His vision was starting to get dark and he couldn't take the constant pounding in his head, not that he ever really could.

"Why!" Raimundo asked him curiously.

"I told you didn't I just..." and that's all he could managed, for the blackness had finally managed to take complete control over Jack's vision and he passed out.