Authors note: Ok, first of all I do not own Xiaolin Showdown in any way, shape, or form. Wish I did but I don't… so sad… oh well :-p. This is my first attempt at a Xiaolin showdown fanfic so please bear with me :).
Intro: Jack's always declaring that he's an evil genius but Wuya's always telling him he's a little short in both departments then dumping him the moment she thinks she's found better help in someone else then coming back not too long after the moment the new help fails or backstabs her. Will Jack be able to show that he's not as useless as Wuya thinks? Or is it just coincidence that he has better luck when he sides up to help out the xiaolin warriors even though he says its to his own benefit.
Yeah I'm sorry I suck at intro's but please read anyway. Raiting for mild language and mild violence.
"I can't believe you lost at yet another Xiaolin Showdown! You're more useless than those stupid robots of yours!" Wuya yelled at Jack as he flew off headed back for home.
"Oh come on give it a rest already woman." The goth boy whined. "It's not like I lose every time, and even when I do win you still whine."
"Perhaps if you didn't loose more often than you won I wouldn't have so much to complain about." The two continued on like this all the way back to Jack's house. Jack walked into his house slamming the front door behind him and headed straight down to the basement ignoring his mothers greeting from the kitchen. Once in the basement Jack adjusted his goggles over his eyes and got to work on his robots again trying to make as much noise as possible hoping to drown out anything Wuya might have to say.
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Over at the temple Raimundo was boasting over how he beat Jack at the showdown, over exaggerating every bit of it which caused Omi to interrupt every couple of seconds to correct him.
"I am glad you were successful in retrieving the shen-gon-wu young ones. Now if you would be so kind as to place it in the vault Raimundo we can start training." The four monks whined at Master Fung's words.
"Aw come on we just got back from fighting Jack-bots and a showdown… wouldn't you consider that training?" whined Raimundo,
"I suppose so… but if you believe that the 'bots' and Jack are enough of a challenge to provide successful training then I suppose you need more chores to build up your stamina." Rai hesitated for a brief second before running off to place the newly acquired Wu in the vault then went back to join the others in the training grounds.
"Raimundo and Clay, you two will pair up first, then Kimiko and Omi. The winners will fight each other." The dragon's nodded and Raimundo and Clay took up their stances and waited for master Fung's signal to begin.
Several hours later, as the dragons finished up training Dojo quickly entered the training grounds dragging the scroll of the shen-gon-wu behind him.
"We've got an active shen-gon-wu on our hands!"
"Oh you've got to be kidding me." Clay said as he took of his hat to wipe the sweat off his forehead.
"This is so wrapped." Omi stated loudly.
"I think you mean 'whacked'." Rai said in his 'no duh' tone.
"Why is it 'whacked'? Did someone hit it?" Rather than try to explain it to Omi Rai just asked which shen-gon-wu had been activated.
"It's the pendant of Hamono." Everyone looked down at the scroll and watched the image of a person holding the pendant cause plants to grow at a rapid rate all around him.
"So what's so cool about making the grass grow?" Rai asked shrugging. "I say we just let Jack bag this one, not like he can do any damage with it."
"It doesn't just make plants grow; you can communicate with them, get them to help you in a fight…" Dojo said trying to explain the importance of the Wu.
"Lets look at it this way young monks; the holder of this pendant could call every living plant to their side as an army. Do you really want to fight an entire forest every time you try to fight Jack for another shen-gon-wu?" Master Fung asked raising an eyebrow at his students. They all shook their heads and climbed on the back of the now huge Dojo and went after the pendant of Hamono."
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"Look faster boy! This better not be your second loss today, this is a very important shen-gon-wu."
"You say that about every one that activates." Jack snapped as he walked along down the streets of New York with his Jack-Bots locater in hand trying to pinpoint the Wu.
"That's because I require all the shen-gon-wu you fool." Jack just rolled his eyes and turned down another street.
"Jack Spicer! Prepare for another defeat at our hands!" Jack looked up to see Omi jumping off the back of Dojo followed by the other monks. Oh great it's these losers again.
"I don't think so chrome dome, you still have to find the Wu first! But just so you can have some fun during the search I'll leave some of my Jack-bots behind to play with you." About twelve of his robots went to fight while he turned to run still following his locater. Turning down a few streets he came to a stop in front of a mall. This might get tricky… Jack thought to himself before walking into the mall with Wuya yelling at him to hurry up.
"You know those pathetic contraptions of yours won't distract those fools for long."
"Hey no worries, they're following the directions of a fossil of a dragon while we've got Jack Spicer's evil Wu detector!" Wuya just looked at him wondering if it was worth saying anything to him as Jack walked along from store to store trying to pin point the shen-gon-wu. Jack stopped and turned to walk into a shop which blared loud music and sported clothes, shoes and strange jewelry along with other strange apparel Wuya wasn't sure she'd seen before.
"Hey I love this store!" Jack said looking up around at everything. "Wonder if they have a sale on black trench coats?"
"You better hope they have a sale on shen-gon-wu because that is what we are here for!" Wuya hissed.
"You're always such a killjoy you know?" he stated before going to the wall covered in jewelry. "Do you see it anywhere?" he asked as he pushed a few pieces aside to make sure it wasn't hiding behind anything. Finding something that looked to be what Wuya had shown him he picked it up off the racks and held it up. "This it?" before Wuya could respond several yellow cords whipped around it and yanked it out of his grip. "Hey!"
"Thanks for finding this for me." Kimiko said with a smirk as she took the pendant from the tangle web comb. Glaring at her he sent his remaining Jack-bots to try and get back the shen-gon-wu. Kimiko moved as best she could in the cramped store trying not to damage anything she didn't want to buy.
"Kimiko over here!" Omi yelled waving his arms. Kimiko quickly threw it over the reach of the robots to Omi. The monk smiled as he caught it and turned to run out of the store with it Kimiko's warnings not reaching him quick enough. The store theft alarm went off and Omi stopped to look around confused still holding the pendant in his hands.
"Omi what did you do?" Rai asked running over with Clay as two mall cops walked up to Omi who simply smiled up at them innocently unaware of him having done anything wrong.
"Alright son lets see what you've got here." One of them said taking the pendant from Omi.
"Please sir I am not your son and that is an active shen-gon-wu you have there you need to be careful." Before the man could ask what a shen-gon-wu was Jack snatched it out of the man's hands and flew up on his hover pack.
"Haven't you heard crime doesn't pay king of baldness?" He asked laughing until he felt something pull on his leg. Looking down he saw Clay grinning up at him his hands holding the rope that was now tied to his leg. "Aw man." Clay began to spin around taking Jack with him. He spun faster and faster before finally letting go causing Jack to crash into a wall breaking his hover pack.
"Hurry and get up you fool!" Jack tried to stand up but fell over before he could even get to his knees everything spinning around him faster than the tilt-a-whirl at a theme park.
"Get up! Get up get up!" Wuya yelled and began flying back and forth through his head.
"Hey hey! Not helping!" Jack yelled as he staggered to his feet. Looking at his hand that held the pendant of Hamono he realized he had dropped it at some point when he was being swung around. Looking around he saw it sitting on top of a waterfall rock feature. Running over on wavering feet he climbed up and touched the pendant the same time Kimiko did.
"Jack Spicer I challenge you to a Xiaolin showdown!"
"Yeah whatever."
"The game is laser tag, first to get hit looses; and I wager your eye of Dashi for my reversing mirror."
"You got it." Jack said with a grin.
"XIAOLIN SHOWDOWN!" all at once the mall reformed itself, creating a maze of scattered floor tiles with nothing but air between them and pieces of wall hovering in the air.
"Gon yi tem pai!" The two moved quickly as lasers shot out from every which way. This looks more like the inside of high tech security system, Jack thought as he jumped from tile to tile wondering how he could get Kimiko hit before he did. Taking the eye of Dashi he aimed it at the tile she was standing on.
"Eye of Dashi!" the eye sent a bolt of lightning towards Kimiko who quickly jumped out of the way and twisted backwards to avoid the lasers as they continually changed and flashed around.
"Come on Kimiko you can do it!" Omi called out.
"You can beat that no good varmint." Clay yelled raising his fist into the air for added emphasis. Ducking behind one of the bits of wall for momentary coverage he peaked out from around the corner and blasted the tile she was standing on then immediately hit the one she was jumping to. Rather than break the tile simply cracked.
"Hah! Is that the best you've got Jack?" Kimiko asked as she landed on the cracked tile. Reading to jump again she found that her foot had got stuck in the crack on the tile. "What! Aw man!" Jack jumped out from behind the wall and laughed at her.
"Who's the evil genius now!" he shouted as a laser beam streaked its way to Kimiko. Thinking quickly she took out the reversing mirror and stuck it out to her side to catch the laser before it could get to her.
"Reversing mirror!" before Jack could move the mirror reflected the laser and hit him dead on.
"Aw man…" the mall pulled itself back together as Kimiko stood triumphant with three shen-gon-wu as Jack simply turned and walked out of the mall.
"Why is it you never learn to gloat after you've won the showdown!"
"I thought I had!" Jack protested walking along down the streets of NY hands stuffed in his pockets. His backpack was still busted so he had to walk to where he had hidden his hovercraft.
"Oh yes… 'who's the evil genius now!'" Wuya said in a mocking imitation of his voice. "Not you Mr. Evil boy genius." Jack just glared at her and continued walking as Wuya ranted on about his lack of evil and genius.
"Well hey, at least I'm not some dumb useless floating ghost who huh?" Jack stopped short as he felt himself step on something soft that pulled away as he lifted his foot up. Wondering if he had stepped on a kitten or something Jack looked down the alley to his left then down to see if maybe it hadn't gotten away yet. Jack's eyes widened as he saw a young girl maybe just a little younger than him lying to the side of the alleyway. Her face was pale making the bruises stand out even more. Her clothes were torn and ripped with deep cuts showing under the torn fabric. Kneeling down Jack noticed scorch marks on her bare feet and the cuffs of her pants. She seemed to be barely breathing, her eyes were partially open unfocused.
"Boy! What's keeping you come on!" Wuya said coming back to where Jack had stopped. "Just leave her there someone will come and find her." Wuya said floating in front of him.
"But she's hurt, we have to do something."
"So the evil boy genius is really good at heart is he?"
"I am so an evil boy genius!" Jack said standing up yelling at the ghostly witch defiantly. Jack looked down at the girl then back to Wuya then back to the girl.
"JACK!"
Authors note: ok that was my first chapter! Please submit reviews so I know if this story is worth continuing or not. Plus I promise the more people review the faster I will update :) till next chapter!