The cool morning air drifted into the cubicle. The smell of ozone and rain came with it. The day was overcast with dark clouds. Jack could hear the trees swaying in the breeze. It was a calming sensation that he knew wouldn't last very long.

Jack looked to his side where she was laying. With a heavy sigh, he gently ran his fingers through her hair. It was soft, so soft. It was probably softer than any angel's hair. Jack sighed once more as he returned to lying on his back. He stared up at the wooden ceiling for some time, until the soft murmur of voices came to him.

"Great," he wanted to cry, "Now I'm hearing voices."

Jack sat up slowly to find two minibots sitting on the bedside table.

"Huh? What's going on here?" he laughed.

"Good morning," the one that looked like Kimiko smiled.

"Uh…" Jack wasn't sure about how to answer her.

"Hey," his counterpart turned to him.

Jack grinned, "I guess you have a friend," Jack laughed.

"Yeah," mini-Jack put an arm around her waist.

"Do you love her?"

"You know the answer to that, Jack," the bot smiled.

"Do you treat her well?"

The minibot sighed, "I treat her just like you would."

Jack's smile faded, "Then I think that you should leave her…"

"Jack," the minibot stood up, "I have something that I want to show you."

"Oh?"

"Yeah, remember that night you told me to record you two?"

"Oh, you can erase that data. It's unimportant…"

"I think you should see it before I delete it."

"Okay," Jack laughed, "But what will it show me, besides my terrible treatment of Kimiko?"

"Just watch, okay?"

Jack sat in silence as the images projected from the minibot danced across the far wall. He felt his heart shatter at the sad realization of the truth. On the footage, he was lying in bed when Kimiko entered the room. She got under the covers with him and began speaking to him.

"I love you," she said.

"I love you too…" he said, "No," he heard himself murmur, "This isn't right…"

"Jack," she murmured into the back of his head, "It is right. We love each other."

He rolled over to face her.

"I might hurt you," he murmured.

"Jack," she sighed.

"Besides, we had a good night. You can sleep with me if you want, but no sex."

A scowl crossed her face.

"Listen, Jack, I don't think you understand who I am."

He watched the fear creep into his own eyes.

"I'm Kimiko Tohomiko. My father is Kiyoshi Tohomiko and he owns one of the largest corporations in Japan. If you want to continue your life here, you'll do what I want."

"K-Kimiko…" his voice shook.

"Shut up, pussy," she snarled, "You won't fight me, you can't. Jack Spicer doesn't have the balls to beat off a girl."

"I thought you said you loved me…"

"I do and this is how I want our relationship to be."

"Please, Kimiko…"

"Shut up," there was a violent motion under the covers and, after some flailing, Jack's boxers were on the floor.

"This isn't what I wanted…"

"I don't care," she hissed into his ear, "It's what I want that matters."

"Turn it off," Jack whispered, "Please."

The minibot did as it was told.

Jack sat in silence. He stared blankly at the empty wall before him.

"Jack," the minibot whispered, "You had to see that…"

"So," his gaze slowly shifted to Kimiko, "She… She raped… me?"

"I'm sorry," Kimiko's minibot stood beside his own.

"No, that's…" Jack laughed quietly, "How?" his laughter grew louder, "I mean, girls don't rape guys… do they?"

"Well," the bot looked down, "That's what happened. There's more. She does it again… You wanna…"

"No," Jack cut it off, "I… I need a walk."

Jack stood up carefully as not to wake the sleeping Kimiko. As Jack walked out the doorway, the minibot collapsed.

"We have to stop him," he groaned.

"Why? What's he gonna do?" the Kimiko bot was on the verge of tears.

"He's going for the monkey staff. If he gets it, one of two things will happen. He'll either be reduced to nothing more than a chimp… or he'll die. His heart won't be able to handle the change…"

"What the hell can we do?" Kimi-bot growled, "We're tiny robots! He could step on us if he wanted to…"

"Well, we gotta try…"

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"Hey, Jack," the voice stopped him as he was about to descend into the vault, "Looking for this?"

Jack turned to Raimundo who was holding the Monkey Staff.

"Please, give it to me…"

"Find another way to make yourself suffer. Or, better yet, get some help. Shen Gong Wu were not intended to be used as suicide tools."

"I…"

"Jack, you don't have to stay with her. You can always leave," Jack slumped a bit, "Look, I know a nice place in Rio where you can hang out. If you want, I can hook you up with my cousin. He's got a spare room…"

"Rai," Jack screeched, "Look at me," he laughed, "Take a good look. I'm not human any more. No one wants me. I know you mean well, but… You should know that nothing will work for me anymore. I can't go back to Tokyo and I can't stay here. I… I have to leave…"

Rai sighed, "Where you gonna go?"

"Away. Far away from here. Don't tell Kimiko it's her fault…"

"So you finally figured it out…"

Jack sighed, "You can laugh now."

"Laugh at what?"

"I know you were just holding it to be nice."

"Jack, what am I gonna laugh about?"

"That I got raped. That Kimiko raped me…"

Rai was stunned. He looked to the ground and rubbed the back of his neck. He wanted to say something, but how does one guy talk to another guy about getting raped?

"Listen," Rai sighed, "I'm not going to laugh. I… I feel sorry for you."

"Eh," Jack shrugged, "I don't need your pity."

"It's not pity. I… I honestly feel for you…"

Jack laughed, "How? What do you mean? How the hell can you, Raimundo, the almighty Xiaoling Dragon of Wind, feel sorry for me?" his laughter was reaching the point of insanity, "I'm Jack Spicer! You made my teenaged years a living nightmare! I think I'm finally rid of you and you show up six years later and ruin my life! You let your little whore fuck me and then you say you're sorry! You're fucking sorry! Ha! That's hilarious! Don't you see? Don't you see how utterly and totally hilarious my entire life is? I loved her! I loved her with all my heart! And I got raped. I didn't even know it! I… I figured that I would've given her consent, but I didn't. Wanna know how I know? I made this porn vid with the minibot she gave me. I watched it. And you know what? I didn't get an erection or anything. All I got were tears in my eyes and an aching feeling in my chest where my fucking heart is supposed to be! But it's not. Know why? I sold it to that bitch who did nothing but swallow it whole leaving me broken and devoid of the last of my dignity! I can't do this anymore!" Jack bolted out of the room, shoving Raimundo to the ground.

Jack ran. He ran across the temple grounds with tears streaming out of his eyes until he found dojo lounging in a hammock tied between two bonsai trees.

"Dojo," he wept as he collapsed to his knees, "Please," he cried, "please!"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. What's going on here?" Dojo sat up in the hammock.

"I… I gotta go…"

"Go where, Jack?"

"Away," he moaned, "Just away."

Dojo watched as Jack gripped the sides of his head and began rocking back and forth.

"Hey, calm down. It's okay…"

"Oh, but it isn't…" Jack snarled, "I need to die, Dojo. Will you help me do that?"

"L-listen," Dojo backed away slowly, "I-I don't believe in assisted suicide…"

"Oh, but it wouldn't be suicide. It would be a mercy killing…"

"Jack, we can work things out through other means. I mean, have you tried talking to someone?"

"Talk's expensive, but life is cheap. It's easier just to spend it. So what do you say? Huh? Wanna give me a hand? Please?"

"And, uh, how would I help you in ending your life?"

"You're a dragon! You could eat me…"

Dojo shuddered, "Sorry, but I'm on a diet."

"Oh," Jack sat back. His red eyes glazed over.

"Was that your only plan?" Dojo asked with a hint of relief.

"I have one more."

Jack reached into his jacket and pulled out a shiny knife.

"Whoa!" Dojo backed up, "You don't need that…"

"For plan B, I have to use it…"

"What?"

"It's the knife from my chest. Kimiko gave it to me," his body slumped a bit, "Take me away from here so I can finish what she started…"

"Huh?"

"Just take me far away and leave me…"

Dojo sighed. He saw the terrible pain in Jack's eyes, he wanted to help, but he knew that nothing he could say would change Jack's mind. Dojo got out of his hammock and morphed into his larger form.

"Hop on," Jack gave him a weak smile before getting onto his back, "Got an idea where you want to go?"

"Someplace cold," Jack whispered into Dojo's scales, "Far away and cold…"

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"Where is he?" Kimiko ran around the temple desperately, "Where did Jack go?"

As she ran, Raimundo caught her in his arms, "He's gone, Kimiko. He took off on Dojo's back a while ago."

"No…" Kimiko whispered; her eyes glazed over.

"He's gone," Rai shook her.

"Why would he leave me?" she droned.

"You killed him! You killed him, Kimiko!"

"No!" She shoved Rai away, "He wouldn't leave me! He wouldn't! He loves me!"

"But you don't love him," Rai snarled.

"Rai!" she screamed, "How could I not love him?'

Raimundo wrapped his hand around her wrist.

"I'll show you," he growled.

Kimiko sat through the minibot's recordings; all of them. By the end, she was silent.

"Well?" Raimundo barked, "What d'ya think?"

Kimiko continued to stare blankly at the blank wall.

"Come on, Kimiko, you always have something to say, why is this suddenly an exception?"

"No…" she murmured.

"What's that?" Rai cocked his head.

"No…" she whispered.

"I'm sorry; I missed that, care to try again?"

"NO!" she screamed, "This isn't right! It can't be! I would never…" Suddenly, she was silent.

"So you remember now…"

"Why couldn't I remember?"

"It's a defense mechanism," her minibot explained, "You were afraid to have sex, especially with someone you loved, like Jack. So you instinctively killed all passion so you couldn't feel or remember anything afterwards. It comes from an overproduction of adrenaline. You went into a primal setting that allowed you to see sex as nothing more than a task that needed conquering. You'd wake up disoriented and seeing Jack sparked denial, so you took your anger out on him. Then, after all was said and done, the hormones would die away and it would be like nothing happened. You always remembered everything, you just refused to acknowledge any of it,"

"Why didn't he say anything?" she whispered, "Why didn't he tell me I was hurting him?"

"Because he loved you…"

"Loved?"

Rai sighed, "Kimiko, he's probably dead by now…"

"No," the minibot interrupted, "If Jack was dead, my program would be terminated."

"Then he's still alive?" Kimiko shouted frantically, "Where?"

"I can show you…"

Kimiko grabbed the minibot.

"Can I come?" a small voice came after her, "I love him."

Kimiko turned to find her own minibot standing on the edge of the nightstand. Silently, she picked up the tiny toy and headed for the vault.

"Silver Manta Ray," she called once she was out in the courtyard.

"Kimiko," Rai called as she got into the Wu.

"Rai, I have to do this alone. I want him to know how I really feel…"

"So what is it?" Rai asked as he stepped back.

Tears welled up in Kimiko's eyes, "I love him."

There was a moment of silence before the cockpit closed and Kimiko took off into the sky.

Raimundo sighed. He knew Kimiko was cured, but it was too late for Jack.

The air was thick with white clouds. Kimiko flew low with the Manta Ray, hoping to spot a shadow through the clouds. She was hoping that Dojo would still be with him; the shadow of a dragon is easier to spot than that of a human body.

"There!" Jack's minibot pointed out the windshield.

Kimiko spotted the shadow and turned the Wu around for a landing. They touched ground a few feet away from Dojo. Kimiko grabbed the bots as she jumped out of the vehicle.

"Dojo!" she shouted across the freezing wind.

"Huh?" the dragon looked behind himself, "Oh, Kimiko!"

"Where is he?" she shouted.

Dojo looked down to where his body was coiled to keep warm. Wrapped in his tail, was Jack's unconscious form. He looked frozen with a knife clutched in his hand.

"He babbled until he fell asleep," Dojo explained, "I did my best to keep him warm, but, heh, I'm cold-blooded."

"Jack!' Kimiko shouted, "Wake up! Wake up, Jack! I love you! I really do! I'm sorry for what I've done to you! I'm sorry! Come on, wake up. It'll work this time, I promise!"

"Kimiko," Dojo stopped her, "Did you ever think that enough was just enough?"

The minibots climbed out of Kimiko's jacket pocket. They scrambled over to Jack's body. Mini-Jack collapsed while Mini-Kimiko approached Jack's frozen face.

"I love you," she whispered, "Please don't die…"

She ran her tiny hand through his thick sideburns.

"There's… nothing…" Mini-Jack collapsed.

"No," Kimiko panted as she picked the minibots up and put them back in her pocket, "I need to get him back to the Manta Ray!"

"Good thing you brought it, because I'm too cold to fly…"

Kimiko laid Jack's body across the back seat. The minibots and Dojo flew in the back with jack.

"Hang in there," Kimiko shouted as she got into the driver's seat, "We'll be back at the temple in no time."

Kimiko took off into the air. As she flew, she looked up into the rearview mirror.

"Is he okay?"

"He's fading," Dojo announced.

Mini-Kimiko sat on Jack's chest holding Mini-Jack in her arms.

"Please don't leave me…"

"Keep him alive!" Kimiko called.

"There's really nothing I can do…"

"You're a magical dragon!"

"Yeah, but I can't stop someone from dying!"

"Can't this thing go any faster!" Kimiko shouted.

"Just fly it!" Dojo yelled as he slithered into the passenger's seat beside her.

Mini-Kimiko gasped as the bot in her arms went rigid.

Jack's red eyes opened for an instant. Kimiko caught the ruby orbs in the rearview mirror. As she spun around to face him, he murmured something before closing his eyes again.

"Jack?" she shook, "Jack?" she called, "Jack?" she wept, "JACK!" she screamed.

His body relaxed as the last of him was gone.

"Sorry…" Mini-Jack cried, "So sorry…"

The façade of Jack Spicer melted from the tiny robot's form, leaving behind a blank, lifeless slate. Mini-Kimiko held the empty shell in her tiny arms.

"Good bye," she whispered.