At Rome, Jackie rode in a motorcycle with Uncle in a sidecar. "Hurry, Jackie!" shouted the old man.
"I know, we mustn't allow Shendu to release the Water Demon!"
"No! Hurry! Uncle's legs are getting a big cramp!"
At the Colosseum, the Dark Hand placed the Pan Ku Box on the ground, and a large green door with a swirling vortex in it slowly rose up. "Join us, sister dearest!" Shendu hissed. What came out was something resembling a mermaid. It had green, blue and white scaly body with a feminine human's upper half, a fish's lower half and writhing tentacles for hair. This was Bai Tza the Water Demon.
"Whoa, fish out of water," commented Ratso.
"At last, liberation," Bai Tza exclaimed. "And now for some libation!" She looked around at the Colosseum and hissed. "Which will require moister climes than this."
"Ah, ah, ah, now that I have opened the last portal, sister," said Shendu. "It is time to liberate me from my prison of flesh." He made a disgusted glance at Valmont's body. He yelped when Bazi Tza grabbed him with her tentacles and brought him up close to her.
"You DARE request your freedom?!"
"Have I not earned it?! As promised, I have released all our brothers and sisters!"
Bai Tza narrowed her eyes at him. "How curious then. THAT SIX DEMON SORCERERS REMAIN TRAPPED IN THE VOID!" She began constricting Shendu as she continued, "I should obliterate you on their behalf!"
"I held my part of the bargain," Shendu wheezed. "You can't blame me for the meddlings of Jackie Chan!" The sound of a motor made the two demons look left. There was Jackie and Uncle, arriving in a motorcycle. "Speaking of whom..."
"Quick, Uncle! The chi spell!" shouted Jackie.
Uncle squirmed in his seat. "Jackie, I'm stuck!" Jackie ran to help him out.
"I will not repeat the same mistakes as the others," Bai Tza shouted as she let go of Shendu and formed a water ball in her hand. She threw it at the two men, but they managed to get away just in time. Then she slithered away. Jackie attempted to start the motorcycle when the Dark Hand started to approach him with electric wands.
"Chariot ride's over, Chan," said Finn.
"It's gladiator time," shouted Ratso.
"It's strength and honor," said Chow.
Jackie finally got the bike running and its wheels sprayed mud all over the Dark Hand. "Uncle, get in!" Uncle groaned in discomfort. Jackie road past the Dark Hand and chased after Bai Tza.
Meanwhile, Valmont regained control of his body. "Is it finally over? Am I free of Shendu?"
"Uh...mermaid said no deal, Big V," said Finn.
Valmont growled.
In the streets of Rome, Bai Tza looked behind her and gasped to see the Chans so close behind her. "Uncle, the chi spell!" shouted Jackie. Uncle held up a gourd and a pufferfish and began chanting, "Yu Mo Gwai Gui Fai Di Zhao!"
"Your spells may have quelled my siblings," Bai Tza shrieked. "But I am a slippery one!" She fired two more water balls out of her hands, making the motorcycle spin out of control. Jackie got back in control and resumed chasing her down the Spanish Steps and onto another street. She didn't look where she was going and crashed into a tour bus, exploding into a puddle of water.
The motorcycle stopped in front it and Jackie inspected the moisture. "Looks like we won't be needing that ch spell after all."
"Don't be so sure, Jade," Jackie said. Jade? "JADE?! I told you to stay with..." He looked again. Jade was sitting in a yellow sidecar with Tohru riding in the motorcycle. "...Tohru," finished Jackie, dumbfounded.
"She is very persuasive," Tohru said, lowing his head.
Uncle struggled to get out of his sidecar. "Help me out! I must cast the chi spell!"
"Sensei," exclaimed Tohru.
While he and Jackie tried to get Uncle out, the puddle began to reform into the Water Demon. "Mama mia!" exclaimed Jade. Bai Tza was full formed; Uncle began chanting and waving the gourd and pufferfish, "Yu Mo Gwai Gui Fai Di Zhao! Yu Mo Gwai Gui Fai Di Zhao!" The gourd began to glow... But Bai Tza was quicker; she fired a water ball out of her hand, knocking it out of his hand. She tried to escape, but Tohru grabbed onto her tail. Big mistake. She started carrying him off. Jackie grabbed the gourd and followed after them.
Bai Tza turned into water and slid through a fence; Tohru crashed into it. Jackie hopped over the fence and resumed the chase. Then she dove into the Fountain of Neptune and jumped into the water. Jackie looked around; but she was gone. She more than likely went down the drain to escape. Jackie sighed. The one that got away, as they say.
When the J-Team returned to Uncle's Rare Finds, they began taking out every book they can find off the shelves. "Water Demon will return to her undersea empire, then not even my most powerful chi spell can stop her."
"So forget the books," said Jade. "Let's pack our flippers and -" She grunted as Uncle handed her a stack of books.
"Research! Bai Tza's empire is also known as the lost continent of Atlantis." Everyone's eyes bugged out when Uncle said that.
"Atlantis?" questioned Jackie.
"I thought it was merely a myth," said Tohru.
"No one has ever been able to find it," reminded Uncle.
"Heh, hence the lost part," said Jade. Then she lost balance and the books she was carrying fell on top of her.
Down below the seas, Bai Tza swam down a trench and found Atlantis...or rather, what was left of it. "My empire lies in ruins! Time has done its worst. Which means it is time for me to claim a new empire!" She chuckled as she swam away.
At the fish cannery, Valmont was having probably the worst day of his life. "Wearing the skirt is demeaning enough, Shendu, but this is over the line!" He now had green scaly skin and a horn coming out of his head.
"Do you think I am pleased with our union, Valmont? If I am to remain in your pathetic body, I at least must make a few cosmetic improvements. Now hold still while I sprout our tail." He was about to drink a potion when Valmont wrenched back control over his body.
"You'll do nothing of the kind!"
"What are you trying to-"
"I'll fight you to the very-"
The Dark Hand just watched the scene, feeling awkward. Suddenly, they felt a presence behind them. They turned around and screamed and ran as Bai Tza appeared and said, "Shendu!"
"Good madam," Valmont pleaded. "Please free me of Shendu, I beg of you! Look what he did to my head!"
Bai Tza picked him up and said, "My answer to you and my sniveling brother remains...no." Then she dropped him.
"Nasty piranha," commented Finn.
"YOU!"
Finn gulped. "Me?" he squeaked. Bai Tza picked him up with one of her tentacles. "Eh, heh," he chuckled nervously. "You're a fish, I'm Finn. We're simpatico."
Her grip tightened as she ordered, "Direct me to a suitable new empire!"
"Uh, mi casa es su casa, your amphibiousness."
"A fish cannery?!"
Finn gulped, realizing his mistake. "I see your point. Well, there's lots of nice places here in San Fran. It's all by the water!"
"Yeah, great town," agreed Chow.
"Except for the quakes," pointed out Ratso.
Bai Tza's eyes gleamed with interest. "Earthquakes?"
"Uh, that's right," said Finn. He started to wonder if he had just made a big mistake. "The San Andreas Fault runs right through downtown. Better idea: you should move to the east coast."
The Water Demon let him go as she hissed with sadistic glee, "So be it. Your San Fran shall be the cradle of my undersea empire!
Ratso put a finger on his chin as he said, a little afraid, "Uh, but isn't your undersea empire supposed to be...you know..."
"Undersea?" asked Chow.
"And so it shall be," Bai Tza said. "Once I sink this city." She turned into water and vanished through the floorboards.
Ratso perfectly summed up the whole situation with two words. "Uh, oh!"
"She's going to sink the city," Chow asked, horrified.
"Uh, can we be excused, Shendu?" asked Finn.
"Yeah, seeing as we opened all the portals for you," said Ratso, who was already thinking of packing his bags and moving to a place far from the sea.
"You don't need us to carry old Pan Ku anymore," Chow finished, who was thinking the same thing as his two companions.
"Never seeing any of you ever again would make me a very happy dragon," the Fire Demon said.
The Dark Hand looked at each other and made a very hasty retreat out the cannery.
"Weren't you listening, Shendu?!" shouted Valmont. "If we stay here, we will drown!"
"Not if we have gills..."
"If you change so much as another hair on my head, I'll..."
"You will what?" Valmont shook his head, fighting to regain control. Then he eyed the Pan Ku Box. He reached for it, but Shendu stopped him. "Do not be a fool! The Pan Ku Box is forged from good magic, you know we cannot touch it!"
"No! YOU cannot touch it!" Valmont grabbed the box after a struggle and energy surged in him, causing pain. Then he felt his whole body shift. He patted his forehead. No horn. He ran to the mirror and saw his reflection was back to normal. "My face! He's gone! He's..." He looked again. He could see the outline of Shendu's face over his own. The eyes were closed, as if he was... "...out cold," he finished. Drat.
"I found Atlanta," Jade said. "Does that count?"
"Uncle, this is impossible," Jackie said. They had combed over probably a hundred books, but found nothing. "Scientists have been trying to find Atlantis for centuries!"
Suddenly, the door opened and the bell rang. And who came in through the door? Valmont. Back to wearing his green business suit instead of the black and blue robe. "Good evening," he said.
"What do you want," Jackie asked, getting in a defensive stance.
"Shh! You will wake Shendu," Valmont hushed him.
Everyone gave him a confused look. "He's...napping?" asked Jackie.
"I rendered him unconscious, now please, you must help me! I want him exorcised!"
"Tch, like we're going to help Shendu get in shape," Jade said, folding her arms.
"Not exercise, Jade. Ex-or-cise," corrected Uncle.
"He wants to remove Shendu's spirit from his body," explained Jackie. "But why should we help you?" he asked Valmont.
"Because there is nothing that either of us wants more than to be rid of that blasted Fire Demon."
Tohru picked his former boss up and glared at him. "Dark Hand trick!"
"No tricks I will tell you anything you want to know!" Tohru began to carry him out. "Our hideout! It's the Helm's Fish Cannery!"
"That's nice," said Jade. "But we've got bigger fish to fry."
"Like finding the demon you unleashed," pointed out Jackie. "Remember?"
"SHE'S IN SAN FRANCISCO!" Valmont shouted desperately.
"Bai Tza?" exclaimed Uncle.
"Here?" exclaimed Jade.
"Where?" demanded Jackie.
Tohru let Valmont down. He made a smug smile. "You scratch my back, I scratch yours."
Jackie couldn't believe what Valmont was saying. "Bai Tza's planning on sinking San Francisco by causing an earthquake? But how?"
"Just because I'm possessed by a demon doesn't mean I can read their minds."
"She will need to jar the Fault with an explosion or..."
"A flood!" Jade realized.
Tohru came in with a tray of tea. "Tea, Sensei?"
"Thank you."
"Jolly good, Tohru," said Valmont. "I would love a spot of..." He stopped when the large man growled at him. "Er, right then."
Uncle drew a Chinese symbol on Valmont's forehead. "This Hansa will suppress Shendu until I am able to concoct a true exorcism spell."
Valmont looked at his reflection. "Well, it's more becoming than a horn, I suppose."
Uncle handed Tohru a satchel and a gourd. "Tohru, you must go with Jackie to cast the Water Demon's chi spell."
"Ta-ta," Valmont waved to them. "Best of luck."
"Come with us," Jackie said.
"Awesome!" Jade cheered.
"Not you," Uncle said, before pointing to Valmont. "YOU!"
Jackie grabbed Valmont by the arm. "But the exorcism spell," he complained.
"You have resources. We need them," Jackie said seriously.
In a helicopter provided by Valmont, Jackie looked out the side with a pair of night vision binoculars. "It's a big city, Chan," pointed out Valmont.
"I am following what we know to be the path of the fault line for any sign of Bai Tza," said Jackie. "That is unless you have any better ideas."
Valmont tried to get friendly with his former minion. "Just like old times, eh, Tohru?" Tohru growled at him in response. "I recommend you watch your back, Chan. Tohru turned on me, remember?"
Tohru pointed at his ex-boss and reminded him, "You forced me to fight a demon!"
"Oh, yes, that' completely different from what Chan has you doing," Valmont said sarcastically.
"Shh!" hissed Jackie. He could see the Water Demon now, slithering down the street. "Down!" he shouted to the pilot, which turned out to be Hak Foo. With a nod of approval from Valmont, the large red-haired man lowered the helicopter down to the street. Jackie, Tohru and Valmont hopped out and Hak Foo took off.
The trio didn't get far when they saw a shadow coming around a corner. Bai Tza? Jackie whispered, "One, two..." NOW! Jackie and Tohru charged, but a small figure in orange flew a kick in their direction, only to be caught in Tohru's hand. It was Jade.
"Thought you guys looked fishy," she said.
"So this is why your niece is always with you," Valmont said humorously. "And here I just thought you were just horribly irresponsible."
"Jade, how did you-"
"I had Section 13 hook me up with satellite surveillance. Duh!" Then she gasped. "Bai-"
"And good bye to you, Jade," Jackie said with his hands on his hips.
"No! Bai Tza!" She pointed to the Water Demon across the street and going down the tunnel to the subway.
"Why Embarcadero Station?" asked Jackie.
"Perhaps she's hopping bars to the Bay Aquarium," Valmont said sarcastically.
The group came into the station, silently stalking towards the edge of the balcony to peer down below. There was Bai Tza, curiously holding a paint bucket in her hand. Using one of her hair tendrils, she began to paint a circle of symbols on the floor and chanted, "Lai Shui Zai...Lai Shaui Zai...Lai Shui Zai..."
"I've seen such symbols in Uncle's books," said Tohru. "Used for summoning spells."
"What's she trying to summon?" asked Jade.
"Enough water for a flood," Jackie said. "The station's lower levels are underground, closer to the fault."
"Then I can't imagine the subway system was built to withstand the crushing pressure of raging flood waters," Valmont said.
"Quickly, Tohru," Jackie said urgently. "The chi spell!"
Tohru took the gourd from his satchel. "I need preparation time," he said.
"I will run interference," Jackie said with a nod. Stealthily, he climbed down the balcony and tiptoed over to the circle while Bai Tza's back was turned. He began to scrape off some of the symbols with his foot, but Bai Tza heard him and she tried to smack him with her tail. Jackie managed to dodge her attacks and resumed scraping off the symbols. "Safe!" He scraped off more symbols only to get blasted into a wall by a jet of water coming from Bai Tza's palms.
"How nice to just stand back on watch Chan work," Valmont said smugly.
Tohru poured the gourds contents into a fish and said, "I must be within range." Taking both the gourd and the fish, he used the escalator to walk downstairs. But not before threatening Valmont, "If Jade does not remain safe, I will turn you inside out."
Valmont gulped. "Err...I won't let her out of my sight, old chap," he said, patting the girl's head.
"Jackie!" Jade exclaimed when she saw Bai Tza grab Jackie and toss him aside. She wanted to help him, but Valmont grabbed her and said, "Ah, ah, ah! Stay right here with Uncle Valmont." Jade growled; how bad she wanted to kill this man!
Meanwhile, Bai Tza managed to fix the circle and began chanting again, "Lai Shui Zai...Lai Shui Zai...Lai Shui Zai..."
Tohru descended the stairs, chanting, "Yu Mo Gui Gwai Fai Di Zao...Yu Mo Gui Gwai Fai Di Zao...Yu Mo Gui Gwai Fai Di Zao..."
The spell nearly completed, Bai Za began to chant faster. Tohru chanted faster too. Unfortunately, it was too late; Bai Tza managed to finish her spell first. The circle turned green and a torrent of water burst out of it. Tohru got blasted off his feet and the water crashed him into Jackie. Both men sat up and Tohru spat the fish he was carrying out of his mouth. "I hate fish," he muttered. He suddenly realized he was missing something. "Where is -"
"THE GOURD!" shouted Jackie, pointing at the vegetable that was floating away.
The men tried to catch it, but Bai Tza grabbed it instead. "Lose something?" She whipped Jackie with her tentacles. Tohru tried to punch her, but she formed a hole in her stomach and sealed his hand. "I want to hold your hand," she laughed as she turned her left hand into a watery hammer and smacked him aside.
Jackie jumped onto her back and tied her tendrils around her eyes, blindfolding her.
Jade dialed her cell phone. "Uncle, we need another gourd! And while you're at it, we need to break a water summoning spell!"
"AYAH! Too many spells!" the old man shouted on the other end.
"How's that exorcism spell coming," Valmont asked in the phone.
Back down below, the water began to rise up to Jackie and Tohru's shoulders. Bai Tza managed to untangle herself and shrieked at them. "I'm going down for the gourd," Jackie said as he dove down.
Unfortunately, Bai Tza followed after him before Tohru could stop her. She swam up to Jackie's surprised face and hissed, "Welcome to my world, Chan!" She swiped at him, but he managed to dodge and swim away. The Water Demon then made a grab for him, but Tohru managed to pull Jackie up to the balcony. Bai Tza shrieked with anger as she burst out of the water.
"Jackie!" exclaimed Jade.
"I'm not sure who to root for. Ow!" Valmont exclaimed as Jade punched him in the arm and growled at him. "Uh...go Jackie?"
"Go, Valmont," she corrected him. As in go help Jackie.
"And ruin my Italian shoes?"
"And keep Shendu for a roommate?"
"Oh, alright," Valmont said, taking off his shoes. He jumped down to the lower level and kicked Bai Tza in the face before she could attack Jackie and Tohru.
"You dare to betray me, Shendu?!" hissed the Water Demon.
An idea popped in Valmont's head. "Yes, he does! I insist you remove him at once and give him a trouncing!" But rather than do what he said, the Water Demon sprayed a torrent of water out of her palm and sent him off his feet.
Jackie ran to help him up. To his horror, he saw that the symbol on his forehead had been washed off. "Valmont?" he asked cautiously.
Valmont's eyes turned red and Shendu's voice hissed from his mouth, "Chan!"
"They've been playing tricks on you, brother!" Bai Tza said.
"Then they shall suffer a dragon's fury!" Shendu opened his mouth and fire burst out. Thinking quick, Tohru and Jackie tossed Bai Tza into the fire, putting it out while also turning her into steam. Both demons stood up and growled at the two men.
Just then, they noticed something: the water level was beginning to lower and the circle that summoned it had vanished. And Uncle was coming down the escalator, holding a gourd and chanting, "Yu Mo Gui Gwai Fai Di Zao...Yu Mo Gui Gwai Fai Di Zao...Yu Mo Gui Gwai Fai Di Zao..."
"Uncle broke your spell," taunted Jade.
The gourd fired a laser, but Bai Tza dove into the water before it could hit her. "Uncle, exorcism," Jackie shouted, pointing at Shendu. But Shendu leaped over his and Jade's heads and took off running out of the subway.
"Scared him off," Jade exclaimed, a little happy.
"Uncle," Jackie said as he and Tohru approached the old man. "You did not remove Shendu from Valmont?" He got slapped in the face. "Ow!"
"With what spell?! Too many interruptions," Uncle chastised him. "I had to concoct anti water summoning spell first!"
Jackie sighed in disappointment. "So Bai Tza and Shendu remain at large."
"Jackie, hello! You just saved the city from the big one," Jade pointed out.
The J-Team watched as all the water finally disappeared, leaving the subway station completely dry. "She will return," Jackie said grimly.
"And when she does, we'll hook her like a trout!" Jade said with a swing of her fist. "Now, come on! I say we treat you to a Pan'Ku breakfast!" She winced when she realized what she said. The adults raised eyebrows at her. "Pan'Ku. I meant, pancake!"
"Now that sounds good," Jackie said.
Uncle picked up Valmont's Italian-made shoes. "I can sell these..."
And with that, the J-Team left the station. Well, Bai Tza was the one that got away today. But tomorrow, they'll have another go at her.