Hey everyone! Thanks for R&R! On with the next story! Oh, and for people who don't know (i.e. Simpletons), Doppelganger means a wraith of a living person, like an exact copy

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Xiaolin Showdown: Legend of the Thunder Child III: Apocalypse Clone

17: Doppelgänger Danger

A few miles from the Temple…

"Ah…" sighed Colza as she swooped through the valley's of China, "The cold air of the mountains is so refreshing…"

Ryan nodded his head in agreement as he stuck his face into the wind. She flew up into the air and dive-bombed; the strong winds blew every bit of sand out of their hair and clothes. Ryan sighed as he lent back on Colza's body, soon he will be back home, he will find out how to use his Wudai weapon, and then he and Kimiko will be off on a romantic date where if he was lucky, he could get some more first-class action from her.

"Temple ahoy!" called Colza as she pointed ahead of them, Ryan grinned as he sat up and looked ahead, in the distance was the familiar buildings of the Xiaolin Temple.

"Ahh…" sighed Ryan "I missed the temple…Its smouldering craters…Its burning buildings…Its courtyards filled with wounded people…WHAT THE HELL?"

Colza stopped above the temple, smoke belched out of the burning buildings, rubble littered the temple courtyards and wounded people were all over the place.

"Oh my god!" gasped Ryan "Someone must have raided the temple, and they did a good job of it too…Oh no! Kimiko's down there!"

Colza swooped down and landed outside the temple front gate, Ryan's jaw fell open as he looked at his home.

"What is this?" said Ryan as he and Colza walked into the temple grounds, "I've seen people raid the temple before, but this is just mindless destruction…"

They both walked towards one of the ravaged but still standing building, before they stepped inside it, it collapsed in front of them.

"Who did this?" said Ryan.

"You did!" yelled a voice from behind him, "Get him!"

Ryan spun around, only to see the Fist of Temigong hitting him in the face. Ryan groaned as he fell to the ground.

"Oww…" mumbled Ryan as his eyes lost its focus, "What's with people knocking…other…people…out…"

Ryan mumbled as he slowly regained conscience. He looked around the room he was in; even though his eyes were still out of focus, he could still recognise that he was now in the Wu vault chained to the wall.

"Yowza…" groaned Ryan "My head hurts…And why am I upside-down?"

Suddenly as fist came from the side of him, hitting him in the stomach.

"OOOF!" gasped Ryan as he looked at who just punched him, "What the hell!"

"Why did you come here?" yelled Raimundo as he walked out into Ryan's range of focus, "And where are our Elemental Wu?"

"What the hell?" said Ryan as he gasped for air, "What's wrong with you people?"

He yelled in pain as he felt another fist in his stomach.

"Answer him!" said Jermaine as he walked into Ryan's field of vision next to Raimundo, "Why did you come here? What are your master's plans?"

"What are you talking about?" groaned Ryan.

"You broke into our temple and stole of our Elemental Wu, you dirty snake!" said Clay, Ryan's limit to his vision disappeared so he could see the whole room.

"What do you mean?" said Ryan "I've been in Texas all this time! Where is Colza?"

"She ran off after we jumped you" said Raimundo "Saying something about maniacs"

"Don't lie to us" said Jermaine "You came to the temple, stole the Wu, destroyed the temple and put Kimiko in a semi-coma!"

"What…" gasped Ryan in a breathless voice, he closed his eyes as he felt tears form in his eyes, "No…Kimiko…"

"Are you…crying?" said Clay. Ryan sniffed as he opened his eyes again.

"I wasn't here to protect her…" sniffed Ryan "She is hurt because of me…OOOF!"

"Nice try" said Raimundo as he removed his fist from Ryan's stomach, "But faking tears won't get you anywhere!"

Kimiko mumbled as she came to, her eyes focused and she saw she was in the medical room.

"Oww…" groaned Kimiko "My head…"

"Kimiko!" said Omi as she ran to her side, "You're awake! Are you okay?"

"Yes" groaned Kimiko as she sat up, "I'm a bit weak though, what happened?"

"Ryan came and raided the temple" said Omi "He also kicked your butt in the vault"

"Ryan!" gasped Kimiko "Where is he? Why did he betray us? Why did he betray me? He said my hairstyle made me a filthy whore!"

"That is why we had captured him!" said Omi in a proud voice, "We caught him just as he came back"

Kimiko sat up straight, her eyes as wide as saucers

"Ryan! He's innocent!" gasped Kimiko.

"What?" said Omi as he raised an eyebrow at her. Kimiko began to breathe faster as she jumped out of bed.

"The Ryan who attacked me wasn't my Ryan" said Kimiko "The Ryan you have could be my Ryan!"

Kimiko and Omi both ran into the Wu vault, were Raimundo and Jermaine were still torturing Ryan.

"Hand me the Sword of the Inferno" said Raimundo "The sharp edge plus the high temperature will hurt a lot…"

"No!" cried Kimiko "Stop!"

She ran in front of Ryan and blocked Raimundo and Jermaine.

"Kimiko…" groaned Ryan "You're okay…Thank you for stopping them…"

"Kimiko!" said Raimundo "He's evil! What are you doing?"

"No!" said Kimiko as she began to untie Ryan.

"OWW!" cried Ryan as he fell to the floor, landing on his head.

"The Ryan that attack us was a fake" said Kimiko "When he attacked, I saw he didn't have any scars on his shoulders"

"So?" said Clay. Kimiko removed Ryan's shirt and saw on his bruised shoulder was a long scar.

"Ryan…I'm sorry" said Kimiko as tears rolled down her cheeks, she smiled as she hugged him, "…I'm so glad your back"

Ryan smiled as he sat up and put his arms around her.

Few minuets later…

"Sorry, but my brain has melted…" said Jermaine as he looked as puzzled as everyone else as they gathered in the Wu vault, "So if Ryan and Colza were in Texas, who was the Doppelganger?"

Everyone shrugged their shoulders as they looked at each other.

"Maybe it was Hannibal Roy Bean?" said Omi "He has the Moby Morpher"

"Hold on! Hannibal Roy Bean?" gasped Ryan "He was in Texas! He was after my Wudai weapon"

Ryan looked at his hands; his metal gloves were still on him.

"I still haven't worked out how they work though…" sighed Ryan.

"If Hannibal was in Texas" said Kimiko "That means it wasn't the Moby Morpher, that was a real Ryan look-alike!"

"Hmm…" thought Master Fung "Hannibal Roy Bean is after Ryan's Wudai weapon and a mysterious look-alike is after our Elemental Wu…"

"There something bad going down here" said Jermaine "Do you think Hannibal and Ryan II are in cahoots?"

"I don't know" said Master Fung "But what I don't understand is why they only took our Elemental Wu…"

Ryan got to his feet and walked towards a wall, he roared as he punched the wall hard, but his liquid metal hands splattered all over the wall.

"If there is one thing I can't stand is fake impersonators!" growled Ryan as he put his hands back to shape, "Just who is this person?"

"Guys!" called Dojo as he, Colza and Dojo-bot came in to the Wu Vault, "There was a massage left for us that you should see!"

They all moved towards a blank wall where Dojo-bot activated his camera mode. A picture of the temple vault at a skewed angle came on.

"Hello?" said a voice as the camera shook, as if something was banging it, "Is this thing on?"

They all gasped, especially Ryan as they saw the fake Ryan walk in front of the camera, he looked exactly like Ryan, the same brown eyes and fluffy light brown hair.

"Ahem…" coughed the fake Ryan "Hello Xiaolin Dragons…And Ryan Young, I'd just like to say it has been great to see you all again, last time I saw you was…Well, you all know where we last met…"

"But we don't even know who he is" said Raimundo.

"Shhh!" shushed Ryan.

"Anyway, look what I got…" taunted the fake Ryan as he held out all the Elemental Wu, "I got your Wu! Ha ha! And I bet you guys have beaten the crap out of the real Ryan until Kimiko told you that I'm the fake one! God, you're all slow!"

Ryan growled as he clenched his fists until his knuckles went white.

"Anyway, my master is out busy collecting a Wudai weapon as a gift for my hard work" said the fake Ryan "But there is a high chance that he may fail, knowing how good that loser is at getting his own way"

"Who does he think he is?" said Jermaine "He is getting on my nerve"

"A Wudai weapon…" said Ryan "Hannibal…He must be his master…But he must mean me who stopped Hannibal…"

"A good friend of mine should be around soon to pick up the Sejoer Lzaas Blades for me" said the fake Ryan "You should know him, his name is Logan"

"Logan's still alive?" gasped Omi.

"But if you're good enough…" said the fake Ryan "I may turn up to see the action…Bye Bye! Tesla Dynamo! Wudai Supernova Thunder!"

There was a flash of lighting and the camera cut off into static.

"Something big is going on…" said Ryan as they all walked out of the Wu vault, "Something bigger than big"

"You haven't seen anything yet!" called a voice from the front gate, "This whole thing goes so deep you will come out the other side!"

They all looked up as they saw a figure standing there, wearing a dark green cloak and a dragon skull mask. Ryan's eyes narrowed as he looked at the old adversary.

"So you are still alive…" said Ryan "Logan…"

UXD: So Logan and Ryan II are two separate people…Are they?

Kaida: Two little stinky heads, sitting on a wall, I got out my shotgun, and blasted them…all?

Ryan: Your poem needs work…

Kaida: Well my poems are better than yours…

Ryan: True…

UXD: R&R, before the plot gets too thick…