"Space…It seems to go on for ever…Then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you" – Phillip J. Fry - Futurama

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

30: Zero Gravity

"This is your entire fault!" yelled Ryan as he grabbed Jack by the coat and shook him, "Thanks to you, we're stuck in space with no way to get down!"

He pushed Jack hard; he sailed through the low gravity and crashed into the wall.

"Hey!" cried Jack "That hurt!"

Ryan floated through the air towards Jack, pinning him against the wall.

"Keep it down back there" called Dojo from the pilot's seat, "I'm trying to get this thing to start up again!"

Ryan grumbled as he floated above Jack, he wrapped his legs around his neck and swung him into an opposite wall.

"Now then Jack" said Ryan as Jack floated dazed in the air, "What are you doing that involves putting a huge space station in space?"

"I don't know what you're talking about?" said Jack "I have no current plans, just gathering Wu"

Ryan groaned as he grabbed Jack and pushed him up against the cockpit window.

"Then what's that then?" said Ryan as he pushed his face against the glass. Jack gasped as he saw what was floating in space ahead of them.

"Oh my god…" gasped Jack "It's my…it's my…my…space station…"

Ryan raised an eyebrow as he looked at his face; it was a combination of shock and surprise as he stared at the Shadow Ecliptis.

"You seriously had no idea about this?" said Ryan. Jack shook his head as he continued to stare.

"After I failed to get the Chaos Helmet, I spent two days working on my Splinter Suit" said Jack.

"Huh?" said Ryan "But if you stayed at your lair, who came with us to Panda Bubba's lair, and who was at the Lost Halls?"

"The Lost Halls?" said Jack as he looked away from the cockpit window, "The Eclipse Reactor?"

"Was that you in the Ying-Yang world?" said Ryan as he sat down in the co-pilot's seat.

"No, I was researching a new source of power for my lair" said Jack "I then came across the hidden information about the Reactor…When I was suddenly attacked by a man in a green cloak"

"Logan…" said Ryan.

"Not only did he steal a copy of the Eclipse Reactor info" said Jack "He stole a copy of one of my blueprints"

"The Shadow Ecliptis" said Ryan "It's all pretty farfetched though…"

"I got surveillance images of me in my lair as proof" said Jack as he pulled out a disk, "The Jack you saw must have been an impostor"

"This doesn't make sense…" said Ryan as he lent back in his chair, "Since when did Hannibal worked with my dad? There something fishy going on…"

He floated beside Jack as they both looked at the Shadow Ecliptis as the Ark Angel floated in space.

"Ah ha!" said Dojo "There it is! Activating artificial gravity!"

There was a loud thud as Jack and Ryan fell to the hard metal floor.

"Oops…" said Dojo as he looked at Ryan and Jack as they lay in a pile on the floor, "Sorry…"

After an hour of floating through space, there was a slow rumbling noise as the ships engines began to warm-up again. Ryan and Jack looked up from their seats as they saw Dojo come into the engine room.

"Done!" said Dojo as he polished his hands with an oily rag, "This rocket hasn't been serviced for 1500 years, but I got it all fixed up"

"Thank god" said Ryan "The sooner we get back, the sooner we can get rid of Jack"

Jack gave a disgruntled grumble as he looked out the window. Ryan got up, sat in the pilot seat and pushed the ignition button. The engine revved like a car as he touched the button, but they didn't turn on.

"Try again" said Dojo as he sat in the co-pilot seat next to him. Ryan pushed it again, the engines revved again, before switching on.

"Okay, we're ready to go!" said Ryan.

"Okay" said Dojo as he pushed a button, "Initiate primary boosters…initiate secondary boosters"

The noise of the engines got louder and the cockpit began to shake.

"Okay" said Dojo "I've set the coordinates to get us back to Earth, the autopilot can get us home"

Ryan looked at the computer and shown him how to get back to Earth, he then looked out of the cockpit window at the Shadow Ecliptis, it hung in orbit around the blue planet.

"We're not going back home…" said Ryan as he deactivated the autopilot, "We're going to check out the Shadow Ecliptis…I'm going to get to the bottom of this…"

He punched the booster button and the Ark Angel shot forward, Ryan pulled at the joystick and directed the ship towards the Shadow Ecliptis.

Meanwhile, onboard the Shadow Ecliptis…

The radar began to beep as a dot began to move towards the centre.

"Hmm…" thought Guardian Angel as the dot move across the screen on one of the many computer screens that lined the metal sphere that Guardian Angel was sealed in, "Looks like Ryan may make it to our house warming party…"

There was a hissing noise as the metal sphere began to open up. Guardian Angel looked up and saw Chase standing on the outside the metal sphere.

"Who's arriving?" said Chase. Guardian Angel thought hard, using physic powers that were amplified by the metal sphere to "see" who was in the ship.

"Redhead…a dragon…" said Guardian Angel "And Ryan"

Chase grinned as he looked out of the window; the Ark Angel was slowly getting closer.

"Do you want me to send out the armada to intercept them?" said Guardian Angel.

"No…" said Chase "Don't, it's not ready yet…"

"Shall I then raise the shields and deploy the defences to stop them?" said Guardian Angel.

"No" said Chase "Let them land…What's their estimated point of arrival?"

Guardian Angel thought hard again, the computers around him began to beep as coloured lights began to travel up and down the wires that were linked from the computers to Guardian Angel's body.

"Two minutes…" said Guardian Angel "At docking bay 30…"

"Invite them in…" said Chase as he looked out the window, "I have a little surprise for them…"

The Ark Angel flew towards the Shadow Ecliptis; Ryan manoeuvred the Ark Angel around the numerous asteroids that circled the Shadow Ecliptis because of its slight gravitational pull.

"So this is the Shadow Ecliptis…" said Ryan as they looked up at it, the surface of the space station, which was the size of a large city, was covered in buildings and walkways. Thousands of robots were flying about, doing repairs on the colossal metal structure.

"How do we get on board?" said Dojo.

"There should be a spare docking bay around here…" said Jack "Hey! Docking bay 30's open!"

Jack pointed to one of the buildings; a large metal airlock with the number 30 on it was opening, revealing a laser shield which protected the hanger from the vacuum outside.

"You can fly though that shield" said Jack as he sat back in his seat.

"Okay guys" said Ryan "Brace yourselves for landing…"

Ryan steered the Ark Angel towards the docking bay, he pulled a lever down to power down the boosters. The Ark Angel slowed down as it hovered above the ground, Dojo flick a switch and the landing gear came out. The Ark Angel landed with a soft bump on the metal floor of the empty hangar. Ryan, Jack and Dojo stepped out of the Ark Angel, their echoing footsteps was the only noise they could hear, apart from the odd noise from the Ark Angel's engines and then machinery around them.

"It's quite…" said Ryan as he looked around, "Too quite…"

"What do you mean?" said Dojo as he shrunk the Ark Angel down and placed it into Ryan's pocket. Ryan though for a moment as he looked up at a security camera, it followed him as he stepped around it.

"Think about it" said Ryan "This is one of Jack's designs, it is highly advanced, but mainly in military technology…"

"Thank you…" said Jack as he blushed slightly, Ryan rolled his eyes as he looked up at the camera again.

"Anyway, this place has military technology" said Ryan "But no guards or any form of defence, they even let us land without resisting"

"Why would they do this?" said Dojo as he climbed up onto Ryan's shoulder. Ryan grinned slightly as the lens on the camera focused on them.

"Someone up there must like me…" said Ryan as he smirked at the camera.

Meanwhile, in the Control Room…

"Why would they do this?" said Dojo as he climbed up onto Ryan's shoulder. Ryan grinned slightly as the lens on the camera focused on them.

"Someone up there must like me…" said Ryan as he smirked at the camera. Chase chuckled as he watched the surveillance film of Ryan walk towards the hangar exit, followed by Jack.

"There's a good boy…" said Chase to himself, "Come right up"

"Ryan is heading towards Deck K-9" said Guardian Angel "What shall I do?"

Chase pushed a button on the control panel; a map of the Shadow Ecliptis came up with Ryan and the others a red blip.

"Lock all doors except Deck K-9 so he goes into the Heavy Weapons Storage" said Chase "Once in there; give them a taste of what came free with Spicer's space station…"

"Excellent…" said Guardian Angel "Warm up Quantum Splinter Bots Alpha, Beta and Gamma, inputting enemy data…Set objectives to…Exterminate"

R&R everyone, I'm off to do…stuff! This story isn't going to finish itself you know!