Jack Spicer's favorite part of eating a pudding cup was licking the cover clean of the stray traces of sweetness. He thought that the cover pudding was the most pure kind of pudding there was, and when he was enjoying one there was nothing that could distract him from that or make him focus on anything else. Not even the imminent threat of drowning in a rising pool of saltwater with all of his allies and enemies surrounding him.

"Jack!" Wuya rasped, floating through the evil boy genius's empty head. "What is wrong with you? Can you not see the water?"

He tossed the pudding cup aside, smirking as it passed through Wuya's body and landed with a soft splash near his Lawyer-bot's steel toes. "I can see the water. But it doesn't really matter to me." He said.

"What?" Wuya demanded.

"Trust me," Jack continued. "As we speak, whole squads of Jack-bots are coming to rescue us."

Wuya's eyes flashed angrily in response. As she floated off, Jack thought that he could hear her muttering darkly about, "Stupid red-headed stepchildren," and "Short-term memory loss."

Back on the Xiaolin side, everyone was feeling much less nonchalant about the current situation.

"I'm exhausted." Kimiko complained. "We've been trapped here for hours and hours and hours. When are we going to be able to get out of here?"

"I dunno." Clay replied.

"Maybe we ought to be thinking of a plan." Raimundo said. "Something involving water. If only we had a Xiaolin dragon of the water handy, maybe he could get us out. Too bad we don't have any bald munchkins running around…"

He glared down at Omi, who was still meditating his life away upside-down in the water. The bald monk seemed to have zoned out of reality almost as much as Jack Spicer had, and was looking a good deal more restive than anyone in his situation had any right to be.

Raimundo was about to shake Omi out of his reverie when Dojo popped his head out of the water. The dragon was wearing a pudding cup on his head and a pair of glasses over his eyes. "The last challenge has just come to me…from beyond the ether!" He announced.

"What?" Kimiko asked.

Dojo continued unabashed. "To win the grand prize of a lovely faux-leather briefcase completed with gold-plated clasps, titanium bolts, and the signature supermodel and noted briefcase enthusiast Dojo Kanojo Cho, you must…"

"Tell us now!" Vlad yelled as he bounded over from the Heylin side.

"…carry everyone in this courthouse to Jack Spicer's mansion." Dojo finished.

"Your turn, Omi." Kimiko said.

Omi popped open an eye and saw Jack and Vlad standing over him.

"Do not worry, my friends." Omi said.

"Oh, we are past worrying. We're in panicking territory right now." Raimundo muttered.

"I know exactly what I am going to do." Omi added. He turned towards Jack and Vlad. "I wager my Mokkou Feather against the Monkey Staff and Gills of Hamachi." He said.

"Deal." Dojo said, before Jack and Vlad could say anything else. "Let's go, then! Chop chop!"

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Vlad's plan was to physically carry each person on his back. "Climb on my back!" He called. The Lawyer-bot strode across the room and hopped onto him. The robot's gargantuan weight quickly forced Vlad to crouch and waddle in order to support it.

"What a lame idea!" Jack remarked. He flew over to Vlad and pressed a button on the back of his Lawyer-bot. The machine shrank down to half its size and attached itself to Jack's heli-bot. instantly; it extended a mechanical claw out and grabbed Vlad by the shoulder, supporting his own girth solely by the strength of the heli-bot.

"Two down…" Dojo said. "A whole bunch more people to go-o-o-o-o-o!"

Dojo yelled as Jack quickly grabbed him by the neck and crammed him into a compartment on the back of his heli-bot. "Three." Jack said, staring evilly at everyone else in the room.

"That's not going to work, Jack." Wuya said. "There's no way your device can carry everyone in the room."

"Could you have some confidence in me for once?" Jack snapped.

Wuya rolled her eyes and floated into the heli-bot, insinuating her ghostly matter into the machine's circuitry. "…waste of time," She growled, even as she did so.

"Why aren't you doing anything?" called Katnappe to Vlad as the vendor/villain allowed himself to be dragged around by the heli-bot.

"Patience. I am having a very sneaking plan." Vlad said.

The Xiaolin monks glared down at Omi. "Why aren't you doing anything?" Raimundo asked.

"Patience. I am having a very clever plan." Omi explained. "Please assist me by activating this." He placed the Mokkou Feather in Raimundo's hands and then took three steps back.

"Mokkou Feather!" Raimundo waved the feather over his head. On cue, the feather began glowing, creating a vortex similar to that of the Golden Tiger Claws. Omi wrapped himself in a bubble of water, but everyone else was defenseless as the vortex began sucking everything into its world of pagodas and steam.

"Hey!" Jack whined as everyone besides he, Omi, and Vlad went sailing into the portal.

He flew up to meet it, but he was too late since the feather's portal closed, leaving only the Wu behind for Omi to catch.

"Ha!" Omi said, holding the feather up for his opponents to see. "All I have to do is get this to the surface and I will win!"

"Gimme!" Jack said, jumping at Omi with a mad gleam in his eyes.

Vlad snapped off the mechanical claw off of the miniaturized Lawyer-bot and swept Jack off his feet with it. As the evil boy genius landed with a splash, Vlad leapt over him and snatched the feather out of Omi's hands. "See you on the other side!" Vlad chuckled as he placed the Gills of Hamachi around his neck. With the feather between his teeth, he charged forward and smashed a big hole in the wall, letting a bunch of water rush in on his opponents as he fled to the surface.

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The courthouse was quickly filled with water, much to the terror of Jack Spicer and the momentary panic of Omi. While the pasty-faced teen held his breath and floated around in the water, Omi manipulated the seawater to create an oceanic cushion for them both.

"Wurrtrrr," He burbled.

"What?" Jack called.

His question was answered as both boys were blasted through the water by the force of the entire ocean. They were buffeted back and forth by the pressure, which alternated between being merely crushing to being downright agonizing. Neither of them could see much of anything, much less Vlad and the Mokkou Feather, and the only thing running through their minds right about then was 'AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!'.

They finally broke the surface of the water, soaring about three feet above it before landing back into the sea with a loud splash.

"W-w-w-w-way to g-g-g-go, O-omi!" Jack said, shivering as he bobbed up and down on the water's surface.

Omi glared at him. "I strongly advise you to start swimming. I cannot make you float for much longer."

"Oh, I am out of here!" Jack said as he felt the water's surface tension slipping. He activated his heli-bot and flew away, still dripping water as he did. Omi watched him fly off before taking off in the same direction, towards the distant speck of land that could only be the mainland where Vlad would eventually have to turn up to win.

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