The showdown didn't go as planned. Actually, Jack made a mental note to keep in mind that he should start planning for there to be a moment during the Shen Gon Wu chase, where he would end up hanging from a cliff and holding on for dear life with only one hand. He needed an emergency backup plan for these things.
He swung himself so that he could hold on to the cliff with both hands and pull himself up. Once he was back up on the field, he saw that Raimundo and Clay kept Chase at bay while Omi made a run for the Shen Gon Wu shining on the cliff to the left.
In a heartbeat, Jack ran towards Omi, snapping off his ruined helipad (thanks to that idiot Omi), and snatched his emergency remote control from the inner pocket of his coat. There was no way he could match Omi's speed at this point, but a glance at the screen of the emergency control showed him that two of his jackbots had recovered enough for basic functions. He needed only to have them throw Omi off the cliff once he started climbing. Just a little more.
He kept running, pressing buttons to give the exact coordinates, just as he saw Omi run up the cliff. He stopped, pulled a small cylinder from within his coat, and twirled it, so that it extended to the size of a spear. As it extended, he could feel the web of tiny nanobots extending through his skin.
'Hurry, hurry' he thought, until a couple of seconds later, he felt a tiny shock go through him. The signal that his nanobots had activated.
He cackled, and kept running towards the cliff. He felt lighter with each step. The process of levitation went much faster than his experiments had shown, but he decided not to care. As long as his new nano impulsors worked, he was happy. (And he wasn't 100% sure they would. He had kept them in reserve for a reason, and that reason was that they tended to go boom in a very ugly way.) But, desperate situations called for desperate measure, was what his mom always said.
He felt himself too far from the ground, and took impulse to start gliding over the ground. It felt like he was ice skating. Who needed a dumb hovering board when you could hover yourself? The makers of Back to the Future clearly didn't dream big enough.
Something exploded behind him, and he saw Clay be thrown straight into the cliff to his left. Then he felt something hit him from behind, and screamed as he crashed to the ground with Raimundo on top of him.
Chase laughed at them, while he ran up towards Omi. "You scream just like your mother, insect," he said, running past them.
"Aw man, that was nasty," said Raimundo, pushing himself off Jack. "No need to mess with anyone's mom."
Jack saw red. A blinding rage filled him, extending from the center of his chest. How dared he? How?!
He couldn't hear anything but the pulsing of his own blood flowing through his veins.
He couldn't speak.
He couldn't think.
He lifted the metal spear, charged it, and threw it at Chase with all his strength. Chase scoffed a laugh, and moved to swat it away in midair, when Jack pulled back his arm, making the spear twist in the air and hit Chase in the head from behind. Jack clenched his fist, and an electric discharge electrocuted Chase, throwing him to the ground.
"She's off limits you jerk!" shouted Jack, while next to him Raimundo damn near pissed from laughter.
Chase recovered with a roar. He turned into a lizard and launched himself at Jack.
Raimundo jumped out of the way, and Jack backflipped away from Chase. He gave a short prayer for his nanobots to work, and glided away from Chase, evading his claws by a hair's breadth. Up in the cliff, he heard Omi cry out in victory when he crushed the jackbots and reached the Shen Gon Wu, but Jack knew Chase had stopped caring about it.
"Yo, jerk, we got beat," said Jack, pointing at Omi even as he glided backwards and twirled over a boulder with a triple axel jump, and landing on the other side perfectly just seconds before Chase crashed through it, reducing it to dust. Chase recovered his human form and stopped for just enough time to call down lightning on him.
"Fine by me," muttered Jack. He skated between the lightning bolts, feeling each of them get closer and closer. For all of his near perfect ice skating skills, he could feel the web of energy of his nanobots cracking over his skin. They felt hotter and hotter. Too hot.
A lightning bolt singed part of his hair, and he knew that he would crash before he could ever outrun Chase.
His spear floated back to him, and the made a wide u turn straight towards Chase, who smirked at him.
"You finally fight like a man, Spicer?" he asked.
"No," said Jack, and threw the spear between them. The nanobots stuck to it, overheating just in time to form an energy web over chase.
And exploding.
Exploding with such power, that even as the speed that he had while gliding allowed Jack to crash far from the main explosion, he was still thrown far away, down the cliff he had narrowly avoided just minutes later.
'This is it', he thought as he fell, and his mind scrambled for any ideas to save himself. No jackbots. No helipad. The wind hit his face and the ground rose up at dizzying speeds. No nanobots. No Shen Gon Wu. He would hit head first against the ground. No chance of survival there. None.
His mom was going to cry.
His dad probably wouldn't.
Not until he was alone.
Jack cried.
Raimundo caught him. He pulled Jack up on the back of Dojo, laughing.
"Hell yeah! That was a good one!" said Raimundo.
"Well done there cowboy," said Clay, patting him in the back.
Jack breathed fast. Faster. Faster. He was hyperventilating. He knew he was, but he couldn't stop himself.
Jack fainted.