Authors note: Hey everyone back again Thanks to everyone for all the reviews :) guess I'll just have to write ch2 as a way to show my thanks. Hope you enjoy.

"Blah" – spoken

Blah – thoughts

-Blah- – written words (you'll understand soon )

-------Complicated Distractions------

Jack Spicer wiped his forehead and lifted his goggles off from over his eyes. He had just finished repairing his hover pack and now it was time for a snack.

"Jack, we need to focus more on world domination." Wuya said floating in front of him.

"I am all over focusing on world domination." He said flashing her a confident smile.

"Then why do you allow yourself to become so easily distracted?"

"I do not get easily distracted. I am completely focused on WHO ATE ALL THE PUDDING?" Wuya smacked her forehead and explained yet again that she was ghostly and could not have eaten any of his pudding.

"Look Jack we really need to focus on the big picture here…"

"Right, mom might have more pudding upstairs."

"JACK!"

"Aw come on I can't think without pudding." Jack whined.

"You can't exactly think with it ether." Jack glared at her before retaliating.

"Growing boy geniuses need to eat you know, it's kinda hard not to be momentarily distracted by these things."

"What about all the other pointless distractions?"

"Like what?"

"Like her!" Wuya yelled pointing at the couch Jack kept downstairs; on it slept the girl he had seen in the alleyway. He had taken her to the hospital and then brought her back to his underground lair. She didn't have any I.D on her so he had no idea who she was or where she lived so she was sleeping on his couch.

"I couldn't just leave her there."

"Why not Mr. Evil boy genius?"

"Hey, there's a difference between being evil and being heartless." Wuya gave him a questioning look.

"I'm arguing this with the wrong person aren't I?" Wuya nodded as Jack slumped forward in defeat. Jack walked over to the couch and knelt next to it looking at the girl. The nurse had been nice enough to give the girl a bath before bandaging her up. They had found nothing seriously wrong; no broken bones or internal bleeding… just a lot of bruises and cuts, none of which were deep enough to need stitches. The worst was the bruising on her neck; the doctor had told him that she probably wouldn't be able to talk for awhile and to bring her back in in a week to make sure she was recovering. Jack wasn't too worried about her not being able to talk; he had already set a notebook and pencil by the couch so she could write what she wanted to say.

"So do you really plan to keep her here till she recovers?" Wuya asked sounding irritated.

"Of course not; I'll have her write down her address when she wakes up and take her home."

"But she's been asleep since you brought her back yesterday."

"Well she's recovering…"

"Wake her up!" mumbling to himself Jack started going up the stairs.

"Where are you going?"

"To get some food, who knows when she ate last." Jack continued up the stairs while Wuya shouted 'goody two shoes' comments after him.

Rummaging around in the food cupboard he decided on chicken soup then poked around a little more till he found some packages of instant pudding. About half an hour later he placed a bowl of pudding in the fridge to cool and ordered his Jack-bots to clean up the pudding he didn't manage to keep in the bowl. After fending off one of the Jack-bots that tried to attack him with a mop to clean up the pudding that he had splattered on himself he grabbed a bowl and tipped some of the soup into it and headed back downstairs.

"Loose a fight with the blender Jackie?" Wuya sneered when she saw him. "With all those white patches you look like a cow."

"I am not a cow!" He shouted back as he pulled a chair over to the couch. He held the bowl close to her face so she could smell it and started nudging her gently with his other hand.

"Hey wake up, I've got food." It only took a few moments for her eyes to flutter open. Jack had to help her sit up so that she could eat properly. She cupped the bowl with both hands that refused to steady themselves so Jack kept one hand on the bowl. Before he could hand her a spoon she tilted the bowl to her lips and simply began to drink it.

"Hey be careful it still might be too hot." The girl, however, seemed to be too hungry to care; in a few minutes she managed to completely empty the bowl.

"Man, were you food deprived or what." Jack said placing the empty bowl on the floor. The girl looked up at him blinking a few times then rubbing her eyes with her hand as if trying to get them to focus. She looked at him again then opened her mouth as if to try to speak but nothing came out. Quickly Jack picked up the notebook and handed it to her.

"Here, the quacks at the hospital said you couldn't speak for awhile so I go this for you to write on." Opening it up to the first page he placed it on her lap and handed her the pencil. In shaky but clear handwriting she wrote on the notebook big enough for him to read without having to hold it up to his face. When she was done writing she held it up for him to see.

-You saved me didn't you? Thank you.-

"Aw it's nothing anyone else wouldn't have done, if I didn't save you I'm sure someone else would have." She shook her head and added something to the notebook.

-Other people saw me but you were the only one who stopped to help me-

"It wasn't that good a deed, you couldn't have been there for very long I'm sure after awhile someone would've helped you." Jack said not sure he liked the idea of being responsible for a good deed no one else would have done.

-I think I was there for three days-

"Three days!" she nodded.

-It's hard to remember but I'm sure I remember watching the moon rise twice as I lay there it's all kind of hazy-

"Well the doc's said you took a blow to the head which might be why your memory's fuzzy, nothing bad though. You must've gotten into a real tumble with someone huh?" she gave a tiny nod and rested the notebook on her lap and looked ahead. It took Jack almost a minute to realize her eyes were getting teary.

"Hey hold up I didn't mean to make you cry; hey my name's Jack, Jack Spicer, what's yours?"

-Jade-

"Nice to meet you." She gave a tiny smile.

"So no additional 'soon to be evil ruler of the world' five minute introduction? Just 'Hi I'm Jack'?" Wuya asked jeeringly as she floated between the two of them.

"And this is Wuya. The blasted pain in the butt stupid Haylin witch who was dumb enough to get herself trapped in a puzzle box for fifteen hundred years."

"Quite you evil boy genius, Goth super-villain wannabe."

"I am an evil boy genius! And look at all this black-" Jack stopped short as he looked down and saw he was still splattered with vanilla pudding. "Well at least I'm more capable of getting Shen Gon Wu and defeating those Xiaolin losers."

"Oh sure you've defeated them soo many times."

"Hey, you tried to side up with Catnapé and she backstabbed you, Mala Mala Jong was taken out by those weaklings, so far the only one who has beaten those guys and stuck with you on this whole thing is me and you keep constantly whining at me! Despite the fact that without me you wouldn't be able to pick up any Shen Gon Wu." He said waving his hand back and forth through her ghostly form. "Shall I remind you about the reversing mirror?"

"In the end Raimundo got it for me."

"And in the end Raimundo put you back in the box, thanks to me! Evil boy genius!" He shouted laughing evilly. He grinned at Wuya as he stopped laughing and looked back over to the couch remembering Jade. She was looking back and forth from one to the other seeming very confused.

"Um, ok." He walked over to the cupboard where he kept his Shen Gon Wu and took out the Shen Gon Wu he had left and walked back over to Jade. "Ok these are Shen Gon Wu." He said as he laid them out on the floor. "This one's the monkey staff it's my favorite." He said grinning. "Monkey staff!" Instantly Jack fell under the effects of the Monkey staff looking like a cross between a monkey and a human. He instantly swung up to the ceiling and hung down in front of Jade by his tail.

"Look at me I'm a monkey in a tree!" Jade grinned and nodded vigorously seeming about as amused as Jack was. Jumping down he picked up the mantis flip coin next and began jumping around showing off. This only lasted till Jack over jumped and brained himself on the ceiling. Once he picked himself off the floor he carefully showed her the last two Shen Gon Wu.

"And when I finally collect all of the Shen Gon Wu I will be supreme evil overlord of the world!"

"Ah hem."

"Along with Wuya." He added glaring at her out of the corner of his eye. Jade seemed to be giggling quietly as she looked at the two, Jack just smiled at this. Her eyes were a deep blue which stood out against her dark brown hair. At first he thought her hair was black, but it had just been blood splattered and muddy. Happy to have someone other than Wuya to talk to Jack told her all he had learnt about the Shen Gon Wu from Wuya then about the Xiaolin warriors.

"Well you've got the slow Cowboy Clay, the anger management girl Kimiko, the believe anything dope Omi and the full of himself Raimundo." Jack explained when Jade wrote a question asking what the warriors were like. Wuya, bored with all of this floated off hoping a Shen Gon Wu would activate itself so something useful could get done.

"Hey Wuya? Wuya… where'd you go?" Jack called out looking around his lab for her.

"What is it?" She asked floating up to him.

"Um, Jade asked me a question and I don't know what the answer is… it's about the Shen Gon Wu but you never told me this so-"

"Just ask the stupid question already!" She snapped at him almost causing him to fall over.

"Who created the Shen Gon Wu!" He said quickly shaking slightly.

"What?"

"The Shen Gon Wu, who made them? You said that Dashi guy used them to beat you and then hid them but… who made them?" Wuya stared at him blankly for a few moments before answering.

"I have no idea."

"None what so ever?" Wuya shook her head. "Oh great so you really are as useless as you seem."

"Are you going to take that girl home or what?" Wuya asked snapping at him.

"I'm getting to it…"

"Well get there faster and take her with you!" Jack snorted and stuffed his fists into his jacket pockets. It had been nice having someone to talk to; his parents were usually never home and they never really cared to talk to him when they were home anyway. But he knew it wouldn't be fair to Jade, unlike him he was sure she had someone who was missing her… probably worried sick. He shook his head as if trying to shake the thoughts from his mind, he wasn't going to berate someone else of their happiness just because they had it and he didn't.

"Hey Jade?" He called out as he walked back over to her. She turned to look over to him tilting her head to one side as if trying to ask 'what?'.

"Um, what's your address? I bet your parents are worried about you, I can get you home no problem ok?" Jade looked down at the notebook pencil in hand but didn't write anything for a few moments. Before Jack could ask if she had maybe forgotten her address she rote it down in shaky handwriting.

"Ok you wait here and I'll go let you know that your parents are coming ok?" Jade nodded but didn't lift her gaze. Not sure what else to say Jack strapped on his backpack and jumped in his hover craft address in hand.

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It didn't take Jack long to find the right aria; the street the house was supposed to be located on was about three blocks from where he found her. Lowering himself down in the back alley aria he walked back onto the main street and began looking for house numbers. Ok so its 127… there's 100, 102…126, 128?

"Oh right odd numbers are on the other side…" he muttered to himself. Turning around his eyes widened at what was directly behind him. He went to the two houses on ether side hoping that that wasn't supposed to be what he was looking for, but in the end there was no mistaking it. Jack sighed as he crossed his arms over his chest and glared at what was in front of him as if it would somehow fix it. In the spot where house 127 was supposed to sit lay nothing but burnt debris. It really didn't even look like it used to be a house; everything had been nearly so completely burnt to ash that all that was really left to show this had once been something more than a pile of soot was the blackened poles that must've once been support beams to the sides of the house. This is not good… Jack thought to himself. Looking around he saw a lady walking down the other side of the street. Quickly he ran over to her hoping to get some answers.

"Hey lady, miss?" He called out waving his arms to make sure he got her attention.

"Yes? Can I help you?"

"Yes um… my friend Jade used to live in that house can you tell me what happened?" Jack knew if he didn't say he was a friend or something that she wasn't going to tell him a thing so he just figured he'd lie and hope she bought it.

"Oh dear, well you see… about four days or so I think, there was a terrible fire, no one's sure what started it but the firemen think it must have been a chemical fire or something."

"Why do you say that?" Jack asked sounding curious. He had had his fair share of fires in his lab so he knew something about them.

"Well no matter how much water they poured onto that house the flames just kept getting higher and hotter… and what I think the odd thing is, is that only that house burnt down; none of the ones beside it caught on fire no matter how big it got."

"Um yeah that's very interesting those people are very lucky and all." He said quickly not really caring. "So what about Jade and her mom or whatever?"

"Once the fire had finally burnt itself out the firemen went in to see what they could find, they found one body burnt to the bone said it had to be Jade's mother. As you know their father didn't live there anymore so it only could have been her." Jack nodded trying to act like he knew what he was supposed to know as a friend.

"And Jade?"

"Well they never found a body, but she was so small that they think she may have been completely consumed by that fire; at least that's what I've heard." She added sounding very proud of herself for knowing it. Jack talked to the woman a little more but she didn't seem to know anything else of use. With no known home to send her too Jack was at a loss for what to do. Wuya is not going to like this… he thought to himself.

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Authors note: Yay ch2 :) hoped it was as good as the first one; did I convince you to stick with me or to run away as fast as possible :-P Well at least I know some aren't mad at me for having Jack leave the girl :) Well, please R&R and I'll get to writing Ch.3 ASAP promise.