Kimiko sighed as she sat inside the witness box. "It's not that I don't like Jack Spicer, it's just that I hate him."
"Why?" 3.0 demanded.
"Roll the clip!" Kimiko said.
The bailiff brought out the TV set and popped in a tape marked 'Tangled Web'. Jack was using the Jetbootsu to walk up a mountain's face to the Monkey Staff while heckling Kimiko as she climbed up after him.
"Case in point…" Kimiko began.
"It's not my fault you have poor upper body strength!" Jack retorted.
Kimiko smiled sweetly. "Come over here and say that again. Pretty please?"
"Enough!" The judge snapped. He banged his pistol and motioned for Kimiko to return to her seat. "Now, I've been talking to you cowpokes since this trial began, and I'm fairly sure that we're ready to reach a verdict."
"Finally!" Jack said.
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Raimundo's predicament proved to be slightly less lethal than he had guessed. He had fallen for what felt like maybe two or three seconds only to have his fall broken by a giant spider web that Dojo had somehow set up underneath the trapdoor.
"Who goes there?" demanded Tubbimura from somewhere next to him in the darkness.
Raimundo cleared his throat. "I am Sabeeny," He hissed. "Earwig lord of the underworld! I shall…uh…I shall desiccate you with my eighteen thousand alien fangs."
Tubbimura suddenly began grunting and shuddering. Raimundo could feel the spider web being pulled taut until finally the ninja's overpowering strength (and weight!) tore it in half, allowing him to fall through and crawl away while Tubbimura was still thinking that he was about to be desiccated.
I wonder how ended up in that trap, Raimundo thought to himself as he slunk around in the darkness. He decided to go back and see if he could find the Serpent's Tail. He had probably dropped it when he fallen through the trap.
"Got it!" Raimundo said.
"Why are you grabbing my leg, o terrifying figure in the darkness?" Tubbimura said as he stopped shaking.
"No reason!" Raimundo said, closing his fingers around the real Serpent's Tail. He backed away slowly and then headed down another hallway, using the Shen Gong Wu power to cut across the solid walls.
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"If you rule against the Xiaolin monks, I'll give $10,000.00 in cash, right now!" Pandabubba announced. "You could do a lot of things with ten thousand dollars! For one, you get a real gavel instead of using a gun--,"
"Ruling against Jack Spicer is the right thing to do." Omi interrupted.
"If you punish the Xiaolin dragons, I'll return all of those naked pictures of you I was about to upload onto the Internet," Katnappe said.
"Free lantern oil every week for a thousand years!" Vlad insisted.
"I'll give you a copy of my new book." Dojo said. "It's called The Life and Times of Dojo, the Handsomest Dragon Ever!"
"I'll give you a free U-bot!" Kimiko yelled.
"I'll give you my Lawyer-bot!" Jack added, much to the robot's displeasure.
Everyone kept chattering on and on, offering up increasingly annoying bribes. Even the bailiff joined in. Finally, the judge had had enough.
"Shaddup!" He bellowed, raising his gun into the air. He pulled the trigger, firing bullets into the walls and roof like a madman.
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
For one blessed minute, everyone was silent. Then it turned into…
"I am so outta here!" Kimiko called as she, Clay, and Omi ran away from the judge's box.
"What is it?" Katnappe asked.
She soon got her response when stream of water began rushing through the newly-formed holes in the courthouse.
"It's the Titanic all over again." The bailiff said balefully. "We can't escape; this courthouse isn't equipped with life-boats or flotation devices."
"What?" Pandabubba demanded. "Why aren't there any lifeboats?"
"It's a courthouse." Kimiko said.
"Perhaps I should have rethought the whole 'underwater' thing." Jack mumbled.
"Ya think?" Katnappe shrieked. "Now we're all going to die…ten thousand leagues under the sea."
"We're not under the sea! We're in it!" Omi snapped.
Dojo was watching over the proceedings, nodding sagely as the water filling the courthouse. "The first sign of oxygen deprivation – extreme irritability."
"No it isn't!" Everyone else in the courthouse roared.
"Case. In. Point." Dojo said as everyone started swimming after him with murderous gleams in their eyes.
