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

48: Hostile Takeover

Outside the Shadow Ecliptis…

2:57:41 till Cannon fire…

A fleet of spaceships flew past a lone satellite dish on their search for the Ark Angel, they circled the area a few times, but they still couldn't find the Ark Angel. The fleet eventually gave up looking and headed back to home, assuming the Ark Angel had flown back to Earth. Meanwhile, hidden under the satellite dish, the Ark Angel had fastened itself to the underside of the dish, so it was invisible to the Shadow Ecliptis's radar.

"We should be safe here for a moment" said Dojo as he shut down the Ark Angel's engines.

"Great" sighed Clay as he lent back in his seat, yawning loudly, "I can get some shut eye now…"

"Oh no! Oh no!" panicked Jack "What if they find us! What if they…"

"Hey!" said Raimundo "Chill out albino boy!"

"I'm not an albino!" grumbled Jack as he sat back in his seat, "It's part of the Goth look!"

Kimiko sighed as she looked over at Ryan's seat; she raised an eyebrow as she saw he was gone.

"Hey guys?" said Kimiko "Where's Ryan?"

"I think he went down into the cabin" said Chucky. She sighed as she got up and left the cockpit. She made her way into the cabin, where she saw Ryan sitting at a window, staring out into space with his shoulders slouched. She sighed as she approached him, he didn't even look up at her or even acknowledge her presence.

"Ryan?" said Kimiko as she rested a hand on her shoulder, "You okay?"

Ryan said nothing as he sighed deeply. She sighed as well as she sat down beside him. Ryan slowly raised his head and looked out the window, the stars shone in space like a thousand candles.

"The stars are pretty…" said Ryan in a quiet voice.

"Yeah…" said Kimiko "Kind of takes me back when we sat on the temple rooftops…"

She looked at him and saw he had his head lowered even lower now, breathing heavily.

"Ryan?" said Kimiko "This is about what Chase said about Guardian Angel, isn't it?"

Ryan nodded slightly as he sighed deeply.

"I can't believe I'm just a copy of that…that thing…" sighed Ryan "I feel so…"

He groaned as he got to his feet, turning his back on Kimiko.

"Gah!" groaned Ryan "I don't know how I feel! I'm so confused! Just who am I? What is my real purpose on this Earth?"

Kimiko got to her feet and moved closer to him.

"Ryan" said Kimiko as she put her hand on his shoulder again, "Calm down"

"No!" said Ryan as he shook her hand off him, "I…I don't know who I am any more! These memories in my head of my past? Are they even my real memories?"

"Ryan please!" said Kimiko.

"I can't take it!" yelled Ryan "Who am I?"

Ryan! Snap out of it!" yelled Kimiko; she slapped him hard across the face, knocking some sense into him.

"So what if you're a copy of that monster?" said Kimiko "So what if you don't know if your memory is real?"

She smiled as she took his hands into hers, holding them gently.

"You are Ryan Young, the only person who Chase knows who can stop him, that's why he wants you dead" said Kimiko "Anyway, the love and memories you share with me are real, and that's good enough for me…"

Ryan smiled as she lent forward, kissing him gently. She put her arms around him and held him as he rested his head against hers. He looked into her eyes, he could see the reflection of the window in her blue eyes, and they were more beautiful than the blue Earth below them.

"The stars really are beautiful" said Ryan "But they look better in your eyes"

She smiled as they kissed again; she pushed him back into his seat so she could be cradled in his lap as they watched the Earth spin slowly through space.

Control room…

2:45:11 till Cannon fire…

Chase growled as he paced up and down the now restored control room.

"How?" growled Chase "How could I have sent fifty men down to stop them from escaping, not only to have the dragons escape, but to have each and very clone just disappear into thin air!"

"I must say master" said Guardian Angel "It is very peculiar, the Dragons lack the ability to vaporise fifty men in one move, someone else must be here apart from the dragons…"

Chase said nothing as he turned to a group of clones.

"You lot!" barked Chase "Increase security on all levels, someone or something is helping the Dragons, and I want their head on a platter!"

The clones ran from the room and split up in different directions. Chase was about to turn around, when he saw a clone still standing there, looking at him with a defiant smirk.

"What are you doing?" demanded Chase as he glared at the clone, "I commanded you to patrol the Shadow Ecliptis! Do it now!"

"What? Patrol this place?" said the clone as he raised an eyebrow at him, "I don't think so…"

Chase's face went red as the clone's smirk got bigger.

"How dare you!" yelled Chase "Guardian Angel!"

"Way ahead of you" said Guardian Angel "Synapse tap…"

Guardian Angel thought hard, trying to mentally locate the clone, but he couldn't read his mind.

"Huh?" gasped Guardian Angel "I can't seem to read his mind or control him…It's as if he isn't a clone…Wait!"

Chase looked at the clone as he began to chuckle evilly.

"Guards!" yelled Chase as he pointed at him, "He's an impostor! Get him!"

Suddenly the whole room was filled with clones; they all swarmed around the rouge clone. He laughed as he looked at the clones around him.

"Poor little Chase" sighed the clone "Still getting other people to fight for him…"

"Who are you?" demanded Chase "Reveal your true self!"

The clone laughed as he looked at the clones around, Chase's eyes widened as he saw the clone's eyes begin to glow a sickly yellow and his mouth warp into a toothy grin. There was a bright flash, and standing where the clone was, was Hannibal Roy Bean.

"Hannibal…" said Chase "Why aren't I surprised that it was you're sabotaging my plans…"

"I must say Chase" said Hannibal "I am very impressed that you managed to continue my plan from when I left you in the Ying Yang world…"

"This may have been your plan" said Chase "But I control the main part of that plan, the Clone army!"

"That is why I have come for the key to the army!" said Hannibal "Guardian Angel!"

Hannibal magically pulled out the Chaos Helmet from thin air and placed it on his head, the helmet glowed as it shrunk down to fit the tiny beans head. He laughed as he jumped over the clones as they dived at him, trying to grab the bean and squash it. Hannibal landed on the other side of the clones, right in front of Guardian Angel, who panicked as he tried to close the metal sphere around him. The sphere was specially plated to protect Guardian Angel from mind control, but Hannibal propelled himself into the air towards him. He just squeezed though the small gap between the two half's of the metal sphere, just as it closed. Chase gasped as he stared at the sphere; he couldn't here anything that was going on inside there. There was a loud hissing noise as the sphere began to open, Chase gasped as he saw Guardian Angel looking back at him with the same yellow eyes.

"As you can see…" said Guardian Angel and Hannibal in perfect unison, "I have complete control over Guardian Angel, his thoughts are now my thoughts…And as I now control Guardian Angel…"

Chase suddenly felt himself being held from behind, he looked behind him to see he was being held by his clones, but they too had creepy yellow eyes.

"I now control your clone army!" laughed Guardian Angel and Hannibal "Minions! Take him away!"

Chase tried to fight the clones off, but there were too many for him to fight. They swarmed over and overpowered him easily.

"This isn't the end!" yelled Chase as he was dragged away, "You're just a bean! You will be crushed!"

"Heh heh heh…" laughed Guardian Angel and Hannibal, "Now that Chase has cleared the path for me, there is nothing that will stop the firing of the Ibis Cannon! I will fill the Earth with fire and ash, and on its ruins, I will rebuild the world in my image…The dream my father had…"

Now Hannibal is in control, he's going to destroy the world, blaa blaa blaa…Rebuild it in his image, blaa blaa blaa…R&R!