Thanks for R&R! Today we finally see who Guardian Angel is! The clock is ticking till the next firing, I like the touch of knowing when the cannon will fire! Let's find out…

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

46: Guardian Angel

Control Room…

3:50:04 till Cannon fire…

Chase sighed as he lent back in his chair, so far Guardian Angel hadn't been able to detect the Tesla Dynamo and he still had four hours to kill, he was bored.

"Master!" called Guardian Angle "I have detected something!"

Chase jumped up from his chair and walked towards the metal sphere Guardian Angel was enclosed in.

"What is it? The Tesla Dynamo?" said Chase.

"No…" said Guardian Angle "It seems we have some pest problems…"

Chase looked up at a computer screen and saw Ryan and Kimiko running at top speed in the direction of the Reactor.

"Amazing…" sighed Chase "He even managed to break out of my detention room, even though Jack said it was impossible to escape from…"

"What shall I do master?" said Guardian Angel.

"Wuya?" said Chase as he looked over at her, "How would you like to ruin someone's plans?"

A smirk appeared on Wuya's lips.

"What do I do?" said Wuya.

"Head down to the Reactor" said Chase "Stop any intruders and bring them to me"

Wuya laughed her evil laugh as she walked from the room with a small band of clones. Chase grinned as he turned back to Guardian Angel.

"What about the others?" said Chase. Chase's screen changed to a view of the detention centre, each cell was empty.

"The others are gone too" said Guardian Angel "Your orders?"

"Increase patrols" said Chase "And continue the search for the Tesla Dynamo"

He grinned as he watched Ryan and Kimiko stop outside an elevator and headed down towards the Reactor.

Not far from the Reactor…

3:49:38 till Cannon fire…

Ryan looked up at the elevator numbers as they got closer to the Reactor. He looked down as he felt Kimiko lean on his shoulder. He smiled as he felt her arms go around his arm, hugging his arm tightly.

"You okay?" said Ryan as he looked down at her, she smiled as she nodded, rubbing her head on his shoulder. Ryan's smile got bigger as he put his arms around her, he rested his head on hers, kissing her head softly.

"Ryan?" said Kimiko "Do you think we'll make it?"

"Of course" said Ryan "I promise you that I will not give up, we're going to stop this thing and save the world together, just like we always do"

"Yeah…" said Kimiko "We will make it…Ryan? When we get home, can we…you know…"

"What?" said Ryan as he looked down at her.

"Well… I was thinking we could…" said Kimiko as she made her fingers walk up his arm, "Go out again on one of those really romantic dates you're so good at?"

Ryan grin broke out a full smile; he nodded as he kissed her.

"I'd love to" said Ryan. Kimiko smiled back as she kissed him again. That kiss got a bit more passionate as Kimiko let Ryan's tongue play with hers. She lent back so she was resting against the wall, pulling Ryan so he was now against her. Their lips made a small smacking noise as they broke apart and looked into each others eyes. Ryan looked up at the numbers on the elevator; they were nearly at their destination. Ryan sighed as he wished that this moment of peace would never end, but it had to.

Reactor Room…

3:45:17 till Cannon fire…

Wuya grinned as she stood at the entrance to the Reactor room, in front of her was a long corridor that lead towards the elevator, behind her was the Eclipse Reactor, already loaded with the seven Elementa and was buzzing loudly, powering the whole space station. Between her and the elevator were twenty clones armed to the teeth with weapons, both melee and guns. An evil grin spread across her face as she heard the elevator get closer.

"Okay everyone" said Wuya "Chase said he wanted any intruders to be taken prisoners, but I say a good prisoner is a dead prisoner, as so as the elevator arrives, pump it full of lead!"

Two clones nodded as they stepped towards the elevator, armed with two large chain guns. They aimed them at the elevator doors and waited for the numbers above the elevator to reach zero. Ding! The elevator arrived.

"Fire!" yelled Wuya. The quite halls was suddenly filled with the sound of a thousand gunshots as the two chain guns sprayed the elevator with bullets, turning the elevator door and anything or anyone behind it into Swiss cheese. After a minute of blasting, Wuya signalled them to stop. She grinned as she walked towards the now broken elevator doors; she tore them away from her and walked into the elevator, where her jaw dropped at what she saw.

"What?" gasped Wuya "Empty?"

She looked all around her, a thousand rounds of ammo and not a single one hit someone. She snarled as she walked out of the elevator.

"Where the hell are they?" yelled Wuya.

"Here I am!" called Ryan as he dropped down from the elevator roof, where he was sheltered from the bullets. Before Wuya could spin around, Ryan had already leapt into the air above her and used her head as a springboard. His foot pushed off her head, sending him into the air above the clones and Wuya crashing to the ground.

"Kill him!" screeched Wuya as she looked up from the ground, "Kill him!"

The clones all turned around as Ryan landed on the floor behind them and dashed off towards the Eclipse Reactor. But before anyone could attack, Kimiko jumped down from the roof of the elevator.

"Wudai Mars Fire!" yelled Kimiko as she sent a rain of fire into the air. As Kimiko roasted the clones, Ryan looked up at the Eclipse Reactor. It was a large pillar with a large sphere floating above it, supported by an unknown force. The sphere had eight holes in the side; each one had one of the Elementa in it, except the eighth one which Ryan guessed he had to put the Tesla Dynamo in.

"All I have to do…" said Ryan to himself as he walked across the walkway to the Eclipse Reactor, "Is put the fake Tesla Dynamo in there and get the hell out of here…Too easy…"

He was about to pull the fake Tesla Dynamo out of his shirt when he heard Kimiko scream behind her.

"Kimiko!" cried Ryan as he turned around to see her swamped with clones.

"Do it!" screamed Kimiko "Forget me! Destroy the Eclipse Reactor!"

Ryan whimpered as he looked back at the Eclipse Reactor. He had a choice, destroy the Reactor, or save his girl…

"Kimiko!" roared Ryan as he dived into the group of clones surrounding her, "Get your filthy hands off her!"

He spun through the clones, scattering them across the corridor. Kimiko was on the ground but still alive.

"Kimiko!" said Ryan as he scooped her up in his arms, "Are you okay?"

"I think so…" said Kimiko. There was the sound of guns loading; they both looked up to see them surrounded by clones.

"No…" groaned Kimiko "We're not okay…"

"Nice try" said Wuya "But today, you shall…"

"Wuya!" called Chase's voice over the intercom, "I am very displeased with your work, I instructed you to capture the intruders! Now bring them to me!"

Wuya snarled as she looked at Ryan and Kimiko, who grabbed Ryan's arm for protection.

"Very well…" sighed Wuya "You two got lucky, that's all…Take them to Chase"

The clones moved Ryan and Kimiko into the elevator and took them up. Kimiko looked up at Ryan with a very worried face; Ryan said nothing as he put an arm around her, trying to comfort her. She sighed as she buried her face in his chest as he stroked her hair gently.

Control Room…

3:30:49 till Cannon fire…

Kimiko and Ryan stepped out into the control room, accompanied by twenty clones and Wuya. They approached a chair that was facing the window, overlooking Earth.

"Such a beautiful planet…" sighed a voice from the chair, "It's a shame that the people who live on it won't agree to my rule, so as punishment, I'm going to turn each city on it into a swirling torrent of fire and ash…"

"You don't have to…" said Ryan "You could have your plans foiled by us!"

"Heh heh heh…" laughed the voice as the chair slowly turned around, "You're stupidity entertains me…But you know you can't win…"

The chair turned around, revealing Chase Young in it.

"You think you're so high and mighty, just because you control this place" said Kimiko "But you're not! You're just as low as you're mindless clones!"

"Please Kimiko, mind your manners…" said Chase "That's no way to talk about your boyfriend…"

"You can shut the hell up!" yelled Kimiko "Ryan is way better than you! You may create thousands of copies, but they are no match for the original!"

Chase laughed as he got up from his seat.

"What is so funny!" growled Kimiko, she tried to move closer to Chase, but the clones held her back.

"I think you're very much mistaken…" said Chase "The Ryan you see there before you, the Ryan you had loved right from the beginning…Isn't the original!"

Both Ryan and Kimiko gasped.

"No!" cried Kimiko "It can't be!"

"Think about it…" said Chase "If Ryan was the original, would I have let him run around and risked him getting lost or hurt? You can't magically clone a clone, if he was the original, he would have been too valuable to let go…"

Ryan began to breathe heavily, was he just another copy, just another number in Chase's plans.

"Ryan" said Kimiko as she turned to him, "Are you okay?"

Ryan said nothing as he looked at her; Kimiko's face became upset as she saw the look in his eyes.

"Chase…" said Ryan "If I'm not the original, then…who is?"

"I am…" said a voice from behind him. Ryan turned around and saw that the voice was coming from a large metal sphere behind him.

"Wha?" gasped Ryan. He stepped backwards as the sphere hissed and slowly opened. Ryan and Kimiko gasped at what they saw looking back at them. A large one eyed monster, the size of a large car was staring back at them, it had a huge brain-like head above it's large eye and long slimy tentacles that were wired up to the various computers around it coming from the flesh from around its eye.

"What…the hell…is…THAT?" gasped Kimiko as she clung to Ryan.

"Ryan…Kimiko…" said Chase "This is Guardian Angel…Controller of the Shadow Ecliptis…Controller of the Ibis Cannon…Controller of my magnificent Clone army…and the original Ryan Young! The centre of all Ryans…a masterpiece created from my very own D.N.A!"

(I know it's against everything about me…but I'm going to do it…)

DUN DUN DAH! Guardian Angel is the original? What the hell? I can imagine that every reader around the world is having the back of their head's explode! The whole theory behind Guardian Angel being the original Ryan is a bit complex, but I will be explaining everything in my 6th story. For the moment, let's just say Guardian Angel is Chase's "cloned son" but anything cloned from GA is also Chase's son, meaning Ryan is also Chase's son too…R&R!