I hated that last chapter… Hopefully this one turns out better. HOPEFULLY. Also as I read the last one, I noticed I became slightly snobby with Mad Hatter. SORRY!!!! BTW do you think there are a popular group and a non-popular group in the Xiaolin Showdown area? Because they have one in the Cartoon Crossover one because they always dedicate stories to this other person. It's like they have this intricate web of friends that NO ONE is allowed to penetrate or else they die horrible deaths.

Anyone wanting to gaze upon Gerard Way goes to my account on deviantart and look at him in all his glory with a crappy wolf behind him. Chase will be up soon after. BUT whom do YOU want?

Dial 1 for Jack

Dial 2 for Curt

Dial 3 for Harry Osborn

Or Dial 4 for another character of your choice. Tobio and Octavius are already up.

Jack stared at Gerard.

"What?" he said in disbelief. "Gerard Way is the guy that plays in My Chemical Romance."

"I'm that guy."

"But, but…"

Jack spluttered for a while longer before just simply giving up on this and sitting down on the floor. Jas grinned with victory, glad to not be the only one who seemed defeated. Gerard gave him a smile, walking over to his desk and casually leaned on it. He fell silent for a few moments, thinking of what he was going to say.

"You can see the dead, so I've been told be Frank." mused Gerard. Jack didn't know who Frank was but he had no time to think about it when Gerard continued his speech.

"As you probably know, the Dragon of Fire has appeared at your hideout. Do you know why?" To this Jack sighed.

"Yea, because everyone thinks I have a shen gun wu called the Soul Gem and that I'm using it for evil purposes, yada yada yada… "

"No." Gerard said, smiling again.

"Then I have no idea why."

"Because she thinks you killed her father."

Jack spluttered again, standing up with anger. His face turned as red as his eyes.

"I did no such thing!"

"We know." sighed Jas from behind Jack, scratching the wolf absent-mindedly.

"She was luckily convinced otherwise by your partner's… appendages."

"The tentacles?" Jack asked, his rage halting. Gerard nodded his head again.

"They found the Mind Reader Conch," explained Gerard. "But that is not important. Have you any idea what killed her father?"

"I would but a lizard ripped the newspaper so I only read up to the second page." Jack answered, slightly sheepishly. Jas gave a groan of frustration.

"Is this our almighty saviour?" he asked sarcastically.

"Hey, watch it girly. If Gerard thinks I'm a saviour, I'm a saviour!" Jack snapped back.

"I'm no girl, you freak of nature!" growled Jas, his rapier out in the open again. This time Jack was ready and revealed his black taser-gun. Both boys faced each other with their dangerous weapons. They didn't get a chance to use them though.

"STOP IT BOTH OF YOU."

Gerard stepped between them, grabbing the sword and the gun, yanking them out of their hands, leaving them surprised.

"Honestly, you're acting like children." he growled, depositing the weapons on his desk.

"Maybe because we are children… teenagers." Jack corrected. Jas smacked his forehead with his palm.

"I'm not even going to bother." Jas said, slumping down on a nearby armchair, the wolf following him. Gerard shook his head and continued.

"Long story short, there is another you." said Gerard. Jack looked back with a puzzled look.

"An impostor, dumbass." mumbled Jas.

"I'm getting the distinct feeling you don't like me."

"ANYWAYS," Gerard sighed, preventing another fight from breaking out, "He is killing people for their souls. Already he has claimed two souls and has delivered it to his masters. All he needs is a third one."

"So technically you grabbed me from my beauty sleep so you could tell me to save the mystery third person from being assassinated from the other me?" Jack responded, crossing his arms over.

"Finally he developed a brain cell."

"Shut up Jas."

"The mystery person is Alexandra Jacqueline Reon. If they get their hands on her soul it could spell doom for humanity."

"15000 years of darkness?"

"I assume that."

"But why does he need those souls?" asked Jack. "What can he do with three souls?!"

"Souls can power anything as long as they are pure enough and haven't died from a natural cause," explained Gerard. "And the people who have those souls are using it to power up something big."

"Can't you go get someone else? I'm not really into saving the world mood," complained Jack. "Get the Xiaolin warriors to do the job."

"They can't DO the job because they can't see the dead without the help of the Soul Gem, which the impostor has!" Gerard said. He walked up to Jack and placed a hand on his shoulder.

"They have a machine. One, which your partner will definitely know about. You manage to save Alexandra, you manage to save the world."

Gerard's words seeped in to Jack's mind, making him slowly lulled to sleep. He closed his eyes and he was submerged into darkness.

Octavius woke up breathing heavily. His tentacles lifted their heads with slight sleepiness.

Is everything okay? If not, we don't care.

Octavius shot them a glare, before getting up. The tentacles gave a groan but helped their maker up to avoid him putting stress on his leg. He looked around the room, laying his eyes on Kimiko. She still slept soundly and with no worries, earning an enviable look from the tentacles.

Why are we up? We just managed to get to sleep…

Octavius said nothing. He had noticed her bag, the one with the three mysterious objects. He picked up the brown rag and looked at it. It was brown and ragged and had holes throughout the whole thing. Octavius glanced at Kimiko, before twirling the rag so it became a very thick rope. And cracked it above Kimiko's head. The girl gave a scream, her blue eyes shot open.

"What was that for?!" Kimiko yelled.

"Time to get up." Octavius said simply, twirling the rag again and cracking it just inches away from her leg. Kimiko gave a hiss and once again tried to escape her iron bonds.

"When I get out of here… I will make sure you are barbecued!" she threatened. Octavius suppressed a snort of laughter and walked over to Jack. The boy lay undisturbed. Not for long anyways. Octavius twirled the rag once again and cracked it inches away from Jack's Face. Unfortunately, he had misjudged the distance so the rag nicked part of his nose. Jack sat up in a flash, holding his nose as if it would drop off any moment. That, and he were screaming at the top of his lungs.

"What the FUCK was that for?!!!!" yelled Jack. Octavius gave a chuckle.

"Language nephew, language."

As the humans had woken up and argued, Curt the lizard, woke up. Over night (for it was morning now) he had managed to shuffle about three metres away from Jack. He blinked his orange eyes and stood up to stretch. The humans didn't notice him. Well Kimiko and Jack didn't notice him, they were to busy fighting. Octavius rolled his eyes. Another crack of the rag silenced everything.

"Be quiet. So early in the morning and I really don't want a headache to start the day." moaned Octavius as he walked to the kitchen.

"Then what are we supposed to do? I need to entertain myself." retorted Jack. Kimiko fumed with anger but fought to say nothing.

I hate bad nights.

Our night was pretty uneventful…

But you are still going to tell us because it was very important to you.

We would never want to leave you in the dark.

SHE GAVE US NAMES!!

That was probably the thing that could fully awaken Octavius. He dropped his cup of coffee and walked back to the living room of the warehouse. Well, what the boys considered a living room, it was basically in the middle of the warehouse they lived in. Octavius marched right up to Kimiko, who probably I would say got the fright of her life. One can handle being killed by one of the dreaded tentacles on his back, it is pretty much one to five seconds of agonizing pain and then you're dead. But when you are faced with Octavius himself, you are thinking along the lines of "Oh shit I'm going to die. He hasn't done anything yet but he will soon enough. He is just standing there looking at me, calculating the way I'm going to die OMG I'M SO DEAD." I'm not saying that is what Kimiko thought but as mentioned before it was along those lines. Octavius leaned down.

"Why did you give my tentacles names?" he asked calmly.

"Have you heard the names yet?" We can always count on Kimiko to have a snappy response even in the face of danger where an ordinary person is thinking, "OMG I'M SO DEAD." Octavius straightened up again. He became silent as he heard the tentacles utter their names. Jack was silent too, listening in on the mind conversation man and metal were currently having.

"You called them Flo, Bubbles, Bimbo and Good Charlotte?"

"Well actually its just Charlotte but I mentioned it was a band so it probably influenced it to change it to the band's name."

Jack couldn't help but chuckle. The argument itself wasn't funny but he really needed to laugh. The chuckle turned into a grunt of pain. His leg gave a spasm and Jack cried out in anguish. Octavius looked at Jack then at his leg and approached to have a better look. He pulled up the trouser leg and winced when he saw the bone sticking out of the skin. His own leg gave a burst of pain but he waved it off. He had suffered worst. Kimiko looked over as well.

"How did that happen?" she asked.

"A rock fell on my leg." Jack answered simply, trying to keep the pain out of his voice. Kimiko fell quiet for a few moments as Octavius examined and prodded the leg. Every time he touched near the bone, it earned a wince and a grunt of pain from Jack.

"Use the rag." Kimiko said suddenly.

"What?"

"The rag that your uncle used to whip us is a shen gun wu. It's called the Shroud of Health."

"First: Thank you for the advice. Second: I'm not his freakin' UNCLE!"

Kimiko sighed. It was annoying to know the truth about Jack's family roots but not being able to tell. What's the point of keeping secrets when you can't tell anyone? Annoying.

"Okay. Let's see if this works." sighed the doctor and wrapped the cloth around Jack's leg.

Not too tight.

Shut up.

Octavius uttered the words needed and soon the rag glowed bright. The tentacles moved in, in a chorus of oohs and ahhs. The light ebbed away and Jack's leg was revealed. It was perfectly healthy and movable as Jack soon found out. He carefully got up with the help of Octavius and walked around. No problems there. Octavius noticed that his own leg had healed as well. The connection they had seemed to work with healing as well as pain. Therefore it SHOULD work with the gash as well. Octavius rolled up his sleeve to reveal the horrid wound. Over night it had became infected and the skin around it was a horrible green.

"And how did that happen?"

Octavius looked at Kimiko and gave a smile.

"A lovely man by the name of Chase Young," he answered, wrapping the rag around his elbow. "We gave him quite a scare and he gave us our pet lizard." Octavius chuckled, pointing his finger at Curt who decided to follow Jack around the warehouse.

"You scared Chase? How did you do that?" Kimiko asked again. Octavius thought for a while. She wouldn't believe him if he said that Jack had used his powers so he went for a more believable approach.

"Marijuana."

"Marijuana?"

"Well, he had never taken the stuff before and since his body is from a different era he couldn't handle it. Saw scary stuff and then jumped out the window." explained Octavius. The tentacles were giggling and so was Jack in the kitchen.

"Did he snort it or did you inject it?"

"Oh we made him snort it up. Pushed his head down on the table and everything."

Jack couldn't hold it in much longer. He laughed out loud, so much he was unable to breathe. In the living room, Octavius chuckled as well. Kimiko went quiet; knowing she had been fooled into thinking this story was true.

"Stupid, stupid, stupid." she whispered to herself, bowing her head so Octavius wouldn't see the redness of her face. She felt a small pat on the back and looked up. Octavius was smiling, much like Jack when he was a little boy. Family connection right there. WHY WASN'T ANYONE SEEING THIS?!

"Sorry but I couldn't resist it." Octavius said, grinning. Jack emerged from the kitchen, holding two cups of tea (Random fact: Tea wakes you up quicker than coffee and apples wake you up faster than both tea and coffee )

"Tea?" Jack said, extending one cup to Kimiko.

She is tied up dumbass.

You're Good Charlotte right?

I prefer G.C.

"Should we let her go?" suggested Jack.

"As in let her go out of this warehouse and roam about?"

"No, as in let her out of those chains because they are chafing her wrists."

Octavius looked at Kimiko once again and gave her an apologetic smile. Two tentacles, which were now known as Bubbles and Bimbo the two lower tentacles snaked behind her and grabbing hold of the chain, snapped it in half. Kimiko shook the chains free and rubbed her soar wrists.

"The female body so delicate." teased Jack, offering the cup of tea again.

"I'll show you who's delicate..." mumbled Kimiko, grabbing the tea and taking a swig.

"What do we do now?" sighed Octavius, sitting back down on the couch. Suddenly Jack remembered his dream from last night.

"I remembered!"

It took a while to explain. Mostly because Kimiko didn't believe him and was quite surprised when Octavius did. The tentacles listened intently and Curt who couldn't exactly understand human speech, simply lay around Jack's feet.

"So you are saying that you have to save this girl's soul or we will have 15000 years of darkness?"

"More or less." shrugged Jack. Octavius lay silent in deep thought. He was thinking on how to find the imposter. He suddenly had a brain wave. Chase had found Jack quite easily so it would be easy for him to find the imposter as well.

"We find Chase first. He found Jack he can find the imposter. And we can scare him once again." he said standing up.

"No we will force him to take heroin this time!" giggled Jack. Kimiko turned red.

"But how do we get there? The guy lives in China!" she said. Octavius thought for a while and a sinister smile crept onto his face.

"Leave it to me..."

That was hard! The spacebar decided not to work on me so I had to change computers...

R&R!