Chapter 1: the life of a monk is a complicated one!

At the temple Omi, Raimundo Kimiko and Clay sat at the table their minds concentrated fully at what laid in front of them their weapons ready and waiting to be used. Omi's face was blank as he chewed his pencil and he flumped it down in front of him into his math book.

"My head will explode if I do anymore of these sums!" he groaned, Kimiko flicked her pencil onto the table as well and closed her book.

"Omi you're the one doing multiplication we're doing algebra!" she growled.

"Awww don't be angry at the Lil' fella Kimiko! We're doing the harder stuff because technically we should be in high school!"

"Yeah and Omi's so small he should still be in kindergarten!" Raimundo sniggered.

"I can't believe this! We are Xiaolin Warriors not mathematics!" Omi cried, "Why are we even doing this!"

"Cos Master Fung believes that even though we fight evil on a daily basis we should still get a decent education!" Kimiko declared in a bored tone of voice "God does this mean we're going to do our G.S.C.E's here too?" she demanded.

"I hope not!" Raimundo muttered and then slammed his book "Dude we do training all day and now we've gotta do homework! When are we gonna get some 'us' time!" he roared.

"Master Fung said we have to do a chapter per week of English, maths and science" Clay muttered as he closed his book "And by the time we're done that it's time to hit the hay! Which doesn't sound like a bad idea neither!" he yawned.

Omi yawned and then closed his book and put his pencil in the pot.

"Well I have completed my work for tonight I shall hit the hay also!"

"I'm with you Omi!" Kimiko muttered and walked past Raimundo only to see his booked is masked by a comic book. "Raimundo! You're suppose to be doing homework!" she swiped away his comic book and put it under her arm.

"I'll do it!" Raimundo grumbled as she walked off and then looked at the algebra, it might as well been in another language to Raimundo.

"Man there has to be another way to do this," he groaned "you have to be a genius to understand this shi…" he stopped when it dawned on him. Jack Spicer was an evil genius he must a few answer sheets hanging around all he had to do was beat him up for some and use them for 'references' and he'd be golden!

He stashed his books in his backpack and grabbed the Golden Tiger Claws and the Shroud of Shadows from the vault; he sneaked away quickly and had vanished inside a portal before anyone even noticed!

Raimundo leapt from the portal to find himself in Jack's evil Lair only to see no one was there! He climbed the steps to appear into a normal looking hallway and began to look around.

Raimundo finally found Jack Spicer sitting at the dinner table; he quickly covered himself with the Shroud of Shadows and had vanished from sight. He tiptoed closer to find Jack scribbling away in a little book.

"Looks like Jack has got homework of his own!" Raimundo thought to himself "Nice to know he's also suffering!" he continued to watch as Jack closed the book to reveal the title of book was 'big sums for big kids' and in the corner was 'for 11+'

"Aw man! Jack really is a retard!" Raimundo groaned to himself.

"I'll have you know Raimundo I only do that book to please my parents" Jack piped up "they also think I'm a retard as you kindly put it!" he declared sarcastically Raimundo froze and let the shroud slip off. Jack clicked his fingers and a jack bot appeared with a few massive books as thick as bricks and put them on the table. Jack took these and opened one and began to work on them. Raimundo walked closer to see one of the books was called 'advanced mathematics volume eleven'.

"How did you know that was me?"

"I've boosted up my security and was notified of your arrival" Jack said, "Where's your friends? Or is it getting so that you guys take turns in beating the crap out of me?"

"Yeah but…that's not why I'm here"

"So why are you here?" Jack demanded turning to look at him "cos normally by now you'd have gone Typhoon Boom on me and I'd find myself with another broken limb or something!"

"Look I just…you know what forget it!" Raimundo muttered and began to walk off. Jack leapt up and grabbed Raimundo by the arm.

"Look if you need help with your homework…" Jack began and Raimundo spun around to stare at him.

"How the hell did you know that?" he snapped and Jack looked nervous for a second.

"Err…Mind Reader Conch?" he mumbled, "But still maybe we can come up with a deal!"

"What kind of a deal?" Raimundo asked, "Oh wait let me guess all my Shen-gong-wu for the answers" he declared sarcastically.

"Well actually if you're friends were here I would have said that just out of…you know…evil professional courtesy. But considering you're on your own and…"

"No I will not sleep with you!" Raimundo snapped and Jack looked at him with disgust.

"What the hell? NO! I'm not gay!" he cried.

"Well that's not what I hear, you scream like a girl and you were make-up…"

"Will you let me finish?" Jack cried "I'll help you if…if you…" he swallowed, closed his eyes as if he was expecting a painful blow to the head "if you'll hang out with me a little!"

Raimundo stared at Jack with a quizzical look.

"Say wha?" Raimundo cried, "Hang out with you? You mean like friends?"

"Unofficially" Jack muttered, "I won't tell if you won't!"

Raimundo looked down at his feet as he thought it through, if Jack did his homework that would mean more time for him to do fun stuff and it also mean he can ace something Omi couldn't do…all for the price of hanging out with the lamest evil doer this side of the century…

"Okay you got yourself a deal!" Raimundo said and Jack grinned happily. "Only once and if you try to even lay a move on me…"

"I AM NOT GAY!" Jack roared.

"Okay then let's keep it that way" Raimundo grinned and tossed the books to Jack "Get started then"

Jack sat down and started to scribble manically in the book it was like his pencil was about to catch fire, Raimundo was about to sit down when three books plopped in front of him.

"One algebra, one physics and one English language done and dusted!" Jack grinned Raimundo's mouth dropped open and he flicked through, Jack had done them completely he even tried to do them Raimundo's hand writing!

"You know I wouldn't proclaim myself to be an evil genius if I didn't have something to back it up with!" Jack grinned and cracked his knuckles "That was pips!"

"And now onto your part of the bargain!" Jack grinned.

"Let's think…no!" Raimundo sniggered as he put the books in his bags he turned around only to come face to face with a Jack-bot's blaster cannon.

"I've also been working on the aim on those blasters" Jack declared with a smug grin "Wanna try your luck or stick to our bargain?" Raimundo glanced at it and then at Jack as he causally slung his bag over his shoulder.

"Yeah sure the sooner I get this over with the better!" he muttered Jack couldn't help but look a bit hurt by that.

"I guess we could go to my game room!" Jack said "You like games right?"

Raimundo followed Jack to a room with double doors; he pushed them open to see a room filled with more video games than he could shake a stick at! There was massive TV with Play station 3, Xbox and others more, shacks of games and a VR room.

"Dude…this is your game room?" Raimundo gasped.

"Yeah…my parents let me buy all sorts of games, they think money will make me happy" he muttered and Raimundo looked at Jack as he walked over to a Jack-Bot that stood there.

"Go get me and my acquaintance some milkshakes and a pizza…err…Raimundo what toppings do you like?" Jack asked Raimundo had just been staring at this room in awe snapped out of it and looked at him.

"Toppings on your pizza?" Jack asked.

"Ham and sweet corn" Raimundo declared Jack smiled and nodded at the Jack-bot who then zoomed off to do the errand. Jack slumped on the sofa that was in front of the mega TV.

"Wanna watch a movie while we eat our pizza?" he asked and Raimundo sat down to look at Jack.

"Why this?"

"Cos we can't eat pizza and play the games we'd get melted cheese all over the consoles!" Jack smiled.

"No I mean why did you ask me to hang with you?" Raimundo asked "Would it have been different if Kimiko or Omi came up to you and asked?" Jack looked away as if deep in thought, the silence hung between them and Raimundo wondered if Jack was going to answer.

"I guess I got fed up with fake friends" he muttered "Jack Bots are okay but after a while I can't help but see there's no friendship there just ones and zeros, they only do what they're programmed to do even with emotion chips and A.I"

"So you wanted to have a real friend?" Raimundo asked, "Is that it?" Jack nodded and then looked away as the Jack-bot brought in the pizza and milkshakes.

"Which movie do you wanna watch?" Jack asked in a cheery voice, "I've got Resident Evil 2!"

"Really? Dude I love that movie!" Raimundo cried and he put the movie on…