(I'm back and in this chapter you will find some touching moments between the two redheads, and here we begin.)

Where we last left off Renamon was sent to follow Jack Spicer and bring him to Rika, after much flying around we find him sitting on the edge of a tree branch watching the sun slowly go down.

"Nothing ever seems to work out for me." Jack said to himself, "I get one chance to make something of myself and to prove to everyone I can do something right, I just screw it up! Why can't I ever catch a break?"

"You really do put a lot of blame on yourself don't you?" Renamon asked

At that moment Jack squealed like a girl as Renamon landed right in front of him, feeling scared he slid backwards on his butt, he slid back until he hit the tree trunk, and Renamon's shadow loomed over him.

"Ah! Don't do me ugly, DON'T DO ME UGLY!" Jack screamed while holding his arms across his face like a shield.

"Relax Jack, and stop your whining."

"What do you want?"

"I want you to come with me, my partner Rika wishes to speak to you."

"You mean that redhead girl you were with, what does she want with me?"

"She merely wishes to talk to you."

"And what if I refuse?" Jack said thinking there's nothing she can do about it.

Renamon then comes face to face with Jack.

"I don't think you want to go there Jack, especially with me." She said in a scary voice.

"Ok, ok, I'll go with you, just don't look at me like that, It's bad enough I have to see a ghosts face every time I wake up in the morning."

"I'm glad you see things my way, just follow me, and try to keep up." Renamon said as she started jumping from place to place, while Jack mumbled her last words, and started flying after her.

Meanwhile back at Rika's place, she was waiting on her back porch for Renamon, until she finally sees them in the distance.

"Ah, right on time." Rika said

As Renamon landed on the ground Jack hovered down, and his propellers sunk back into his backpack, and he landed on the ground.

"Rika, is it? I heard you wanted to see me."

"That is right Jack, come on inside."

As Jack made his way inside he slipped his boots off, as Rika made it in the living room to see her mom and grandma sitting down and sipping tea.

"Mom, Grandma, he's here, come on Jack." Rika said pulling Jack into the room.

"Welcome Jack." Seiko said.

"Are you sure about this Rika?" Rumiko asked.

"Relax, I know you don't have the Culver Crystal anymore, so I have no reason to do anyone harm."

"Like you even could." Renamon said

"Hey!" Jack said, but calmed down, "Al right, what do you want with me?"

"Jack I only wish to talk to you, why do you claim to be evil?" Rika asked

"Because I am evil, and I'm proud of it you hear me PROUD OF IT!" he said waving his hands in the air like a crazy guy.

"You certainly don't sound like you're proud of being evil." Renamon said.

"I-I guess- I don't know anymore."

"How did you even become this way?" Seiko asked.

"You really want know." Jack asked the Nonaka's who all nodded including Renamon. "Okay then I'll show you." He said pulling a mirror out of his jacket, it was designed like the Reversing mirror but only round instead of rectangular and didn't have any writing on it.

"What's that?" Rumiko asked.

"This is the Mirror of Ages (I made it up); it has the power to show its holder his/her past present and future. I use it mostly to see my past."

"So you're going to use it to show us your past?" Rika asked.

"Yes, but before I do, please don't laugh at any moments no matter how funny you think they are." Jack said.

"I promise I won't." Rika said, and her family and partner nodded assuring they wouldn't either.

"Al right. Mirror of Ages; the past!" Jack shouted and the mirror started floating and an image of Jack in his basement looking over his plans for world domination appeared in the mirror. "That was me before I even began my hunt for Shen Gong Wu.

(Flashback in mirror)

"I want to rule the whole world!" Jack shouted to himself, "All of it! Not some of it, not just Iceland or Fiji, I want to rule the whole World!"

Then two of his Jack-Bots approached him.

"Pardon me sir." Jack-Bot 1 asked him.

"WHAT!" Jack yelled, "Can't you see I'm on an evil rant here?"

"Yes sir, but your father sent you a gift from Hong Kong." Jack-Bot 1 said handing Jack a Puzzle Box.

"Oh a Puzzle Box." Jack said as he opened to see Wuyas' mask.

"So I through the Box aside and went back to planning, but as I was going through my plans Wuya flew through my stomach and appeared before me. Naturally I panicked, and ordered my bots to attack her, but it didn't work, she looked at my World Domination plans and then at me."

"Plans for world conquest?" Wuya asked. "My dear boy we have much in common. What's your name?"

"Jack Spicer, who are you, what are you?" Jack asked.

"Me… I'm your new best friend."

(Flashback ends in the mirror, and shows other moments with jack and Wuya in her ghost form)

"Wuya told me all about the battle she fought and lost fifteen hundred years ago, The Shen Gong Wu, and the Xiaolin Showdowns. I thought using the Shen Gong Wu would increase my chance for ruling the world, but I always end up loosing my Shen Gong Wu. Even when I try to team up with other big time evil villains like Chase Young; the super evil genius, and Hannibal Roy Bean; the greatest Evil Mastermind, they always end up betraying me and take all the glory for themselves."

"Even other real big time villains treat you like your nothing, why do you put up with that?" Rika asked.

"I always still think I have a chance to prove to them that I have what it takes to join their league, but they always turn on me." Jack whined.

As he finished the mirror showed past moments of Wuya threatening him, Chase throwing him off his mountains cliff, even Hannibal using the Zing-Zom Bone on him.

"Hasn't it ever occurred to you that maybe you don't belong on the side of evil?" Rika asked.

"I once thought that to, but when the monks gave me the chance to be a good guy, I blew it, I was actually afraid I would fail at good just like at evil. But I really did try, Omi was able to figure that out during the Showdown we were having."

Then the mirror powered down and landed in Jacks hands.

"And that's why I'm like this, once a bad guy, always a bad guy." Jack said.

"Let me tell you something Jack, you think you were a bad guy, wait till you've seen what I was like.

Rika said as she took the mirror but didn't know what to do. "How do you work this thing?"

"Just call out what it is and select your time period." Jack said.

Rika then cleared her throat. "Mirror of Ages, the past!" Rika shouted and images of Rikas past appeared in the reflection.

"Digimon are nothing more than data."

"Why would I wan to waste my time with these goggle heads?"

"Next time, you'll win...without my help"

"What a lousy fighter. But a fight's a fight."

"I think it's your fault, you should try harder."

"Let's get his straight. I don't buy all this stuff about partners and feelings."

"I don't need you. I don't need anybody!"

"I hate digimon. All of them."

(Flashbacks end)

Jack just looked at it with amazement and shock.

"I don't believe this." Jack said with a bit of laughter, "You're, you're just as bad as me."

"Was just as bad." Rika corrected him.

"What?" Jack asked.

Then the mirror began showing Jack the times she had been nice to people. (Not to go into detail but you know what moments I'm talking 'bout right?)

"After my friends had shown me the truth about digimon, I finally realized what a fool I've been to everyone." Rika said with her head hanging over with guilt.

"Well you may have been able to change your ways, but there's no way I can now, and besides no one would care what I do with my life." Jack said

"Well surly your parents must be worried about what you do." Seiko said with concern.

"Please, they couldn't care less about what I do." Jack said. "My parents are always having parties just so they could discuss about me to their friends who all think I'm a freak, and sometimes they even stay out all night partying leaving me all by myself. Even when I get home after a loosing a Showdown to the monks I always find notes on the fridge saying they'll be out all day and they left frozen foods for me." Jack then hung his over. "They just don't care about me, nobody cares about me, people just go off and leave me."

Rika couldn't believe what he was saying, and she always thought she was the only one with problems, but this is just too much for her to handle.

"Jack, come with me." Rika said softly

Jack then followed Rika outside to her back porch outside her room, Jack was nervous when Rika rubbed the spot next to her wanting Jack to sit next to her. So Jack walked over and sat next to Rika and she was unable to notice Jack was lightly blushing.

"Jack, I understand what you mean by when your family leaves you."

"How?"

"Because, m father left me a long time ago, permanently."

"What?"

"That's right, it broke my heart to see him leave, the last thing I remembered was him promising me that we'd watch the sunset for one last time." Rika said looking up at the sun that was going down.

"That must've been rough."

"You have no idea." She said. "The saddest part was I wanted to sing him a song that I always use to sing. But now… If anyone deserves to hear my song it's you Jack Spicer.

"You sing for me?"

"Yes, but do you mind if I sing it in my own native tongue?"

"Not at all, I happen to learn how to speak Japanese."

Rika said nothing she just took a deep breath and began singing.

Zutto zutto issho ni iru to Ano yuuhi ni yakusoku shita kara

Ima sugu aitai Sono kimochi o Onegai tsutaete ne

Hitoribotchi no kokoro ni Totsuzen tobikonde kita

Sukoshi itakatta koto Yasashiku tsutsunde kureta

Konna ni hotto suru koto wa hajimete dakara

Sono nukumori o sotto Poketto ni tsume konde Aruite ikitai?

Zutto zutto issho ni iru to Ano yuuhi ni yakusoku shita kara

Sabishii toki mo Hirogaru orenji o nagamete

"Kitto kitto daijoubu da yo" ano yuuhi ga sasayaite kureru

Ima sugu aitai Sono kimochi o Onegai tsutaete ne

Now we see Takato, Henry, and the rest of the gang minus Suzy walk up to Rika's door, and Seiko answers.

"Hello kids, I assume you're here to see Rika?"

"Yes mam, she was suppose to meet us at our hangout awhile ago." Takato said.

"Well come in she right around back with a new friend."

"New friend?" Takato said.

"What do you mean?" Ryo asked (Jealous aren't we?)

"Rika invited another boy over so she could talk to him."

"Hmm, let's go see who this new friend is." Henry said acting cautious.

Meanwhile not far from Rika's place Wuya is floating around looking for Jack.

"Where is that imbecile Jack, I never should've left him alone." Wuya said but then looked down and caught a glimpse of Jack and hovered down slowly but kept herself hidden behind a tree in Rika's backyard. 'What is this?' she thought to herself.

Then as the gang were close to Rika's porch, Henry stopped them and they saw Rika and Jack who was starting to lay his head on Rika's shoulder and Rika didn't see to care.

"Who is that guy?" Kenta asked

"I don't know, but we should find out!" Ryo said getting ready to go over but was stopped by Takato.

"Ryo, if you barge in on her she'll kill you."

"Yeah, and besides this is getting good." Kazu said.

Anata ga ichiban suki na Saikou no egao de

Mukaerareru you ni Watashi mo mainichi ganbatte ikitai? (Rika began rubbing the back of Jacks head)

Zutto zutoo issho ni iru to Ano yuuhi ni yakusoku shita kara

Kujikesou demo Kirei na orenji o dakishime

"Kitto kitto daijoubu da yo" Ano yuuhi ga oshiete kureta no

Shinjite ireba Sono kimochi wa Kanarazu todokutte

Zutto zutto issho ni iru to Ano yuuhi ni yakusoku shita kara

Tooku ni itemo Onaji orenji o kanjite

"Kitto kitto daijoubu da yo" Ano yuuhi wa tsunagatteru kara

Mou nakanai yo Futari no ai Kokoro o terashiteru

Futari no ai Kokoro o terashiteru?

After she finished singing Jack lifted his head off her shoulder and shed a tear.

"Wow Rika that was beautiful."

"Thanks." She said laying her hand on Jacks.

The gang decided that it was time for them to make their appearance.

"Hey Rika, you there?" Takato called.

That snapped Rika out of it and pretended she didn't do anything intimate with Jack.

"Hi guys, what's going on?" she chirps

"We've been worried about you Rika." Jeri said.

"Yeah miss tardy you were suppose to meet us at the hangout hours ago. Kazu said.

"Sorry must've slipped my mind."

"Whose your friend?" Henry asked.

"Who oh him, guys this is Jack, Jack these are my friends Takato, Henry, Jeri, Ryo, Kazu, and Kenta."

"Hi, I'm Jack Spicer."

"Jack Spicer…" Kazu thought, "Oh yeah I remember now your that crazy evil boy genius their talking about on the Internet. You're a major laughing stock in the world of evil, and the new hip thing to say when someone looses everything is "I got Jacked!" with that he began laughing like a maniac.

Jack just stood there embarrassed and hurt from that comment, but that was just the beginning for an angry spirit appeared before them.

"JACK YOU IDIOT!" Wuya shouted at him. " I leave you alone for a few minutes and your flirting around with some girl!"

"Wuya it's not what you think." Jack tried to convince her but she wasn't buying."

"Save it Jack, you call yourself evil, I just can't believe I'm stuck with a pathetic boy." Wuya growled as she flew off, while everyone else was just shocked to see a ghost.

"Did you just see that?" Takato asked Henry who just nodded.

"Good then I'm not crazy."

"Jack don't listen to-" Rika started but was interrupted by Jack.

"Sorry Rika but their right, Wuya doesn't think I belong on the Heylin side, and the monks don't believe on the Xiaolin side. I… I don't belong anywhere." Jack said sadly with his head hanging over.

"Jack…" Rika said.

"Sorry, but I… gotta go." Jack said running off and jumped into the air as his propellers came out and he flew off with his head still hung over.

"Jack wait!" Rika called out.

"Whoa, that was deep." Kenta said.

Rika just stood there for a minute feeling sorry for Jack, but then anger grew on her face and she turned to Kazu.

"You idiot! Can't you keep that mouth of yours shut?"

"What do you-?" Kazu began.

"You have got to be the most insensitive jerk that ever walked this planet, I was this close to changing him from evil to good, but you had to come and mess things up, God you shouldn't have been born with a mouth because you say things that no one should have to hear!"

"I'm sorry I didn't mean."

"Save it!" Rika shouted, she then looked up and saw Jack was out of sight. 'Jack.' Rika thought sadly.

(Not bad huh, kinda mushy but can you imagine Rika Nonaka and Jack Spicer sitting together and Rika serenading Jack)