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

60: Energy Fields

Core's Energy Fields…

09:22 till Earth impact…

Ryan and Kimiko ran down the thin walkway that towered over a river of pure energy that flowed outward towards the rest of the Shadow Ecliptis, in the distance was a huge metal sphere with thousands of pipes coming out of it, each one was filled with glowing energy.

"Okay Kimiko" called Ryan over the loud buzzing noise of the core, "The core's ahead of us! First we got to get through and shut down the two energy fields so the others can get through safely!"

Kimiko hesitated as she saw Ryan move on ahead.

"Ryan!" called Kimiko "Do you have any idea what we will find in there?"

"No!" called Ryan as he turned back to her, "But we have no choice, I'd rather risk my life than guarantee my death!"

Kimiko nodded in agreement as she went after him, she grabbed his hand as he pulled her along the walkway. They got quite near the core, when the platform stopped.

"Damn it!" yelled Ryan as he looked at the floor, "It must have collapsed…"

"What do we do now?" said Kimiko as she looked over the edge; it was a long way down. She looked up to see that Ryan had vanished.

"Ryan?" said Kimiko, "Ryan!"

She turned around when she heard fast footsteps behind her; Ryan was running at full speed towards her.

"Oh no!" cried Kimiko as she waved her arms at him, "You can't jump this!"

Ryan didn't stop, he continued with a determined look on his face.

"Ryan!" cried Kimiko "DON'T!"

She closed her eyes and screamed as she felt Ryan tackle her; they both flew off the platform. She clutched his body as they fell down towards the river of energy.

"Come on…" said Ryan through his teeth, "I can do this…"

Kimiko took a look below them, between them and the river of energy was a pipe that led off towards the core. Ryan swung his arms so he and Kimiko were falling feet first.

"WIND!" yelled Ryan as he swung his arms again, a gust of wind began to blow against them, slowing them down. Kimiko clenched her eyes shut as she saw that they were falling too fast for the wind to slow them down in time for the pipe. Ryan moved her arms so they were around his neck and her chest was resting against his back. Ryan tried his best to line himself up with the fast approaching pipe. His feet touched down on the pipe and he rocketed off towards the core, sparks jumping from where his shoes were sliding along the pipe at top speed. Kimiko opened her eyes again as she saw they were no longer falling, but travelling at high speeds. She looked over his shoulders and saw they were heading towards the core.

"Ryan…" gasped Kimiko as she held him tighter, "Don't scare me like that…"

Ryan smiled as he looked up at her.

"Sorry…" said Ryan as he nuzzled his head against hers, "Maybe I can make it up to you sometime?"

Kimiko smiled back as she rested her head on his back, even in the chaos of the river of energy below them, the buzzing noise of the core and the sound of Ryan sliding down the pipe, she could still hear his heart beating healthy and strongly in his chest.

"Okay Kimiko!" called Ryan "We're almost there! Brace yourself!"

Kimiko held onto Ryan's body even harder as they both got closer to a hole in the core that the pipe went into.

"Ready?" called Ryan. They both went into the core and were met by a large flash as an arc of energy shot in front of them.

"What the hell was that?" called Kimiko.

"An energy arc!" called Ryan "This is the first energy field!"

They both looked around them as Ryan continued to slide down the pipe. It was like they were in a thundercloud; it was quite dark and foreboding and the random arcs of energy kept on making them jump. Suddenly Kimiko heard something behind her, she looked behind her and gasped, an arc of energy had hit the pipe behind them and the energy was flowing down the pipe towards them.

"Ryan!" cried Kimiko as she shook him. Ryan turned around and saw the energy flowing towards them. He crouched down low so he could pick up as much speed as he could, but the energy was still gaining on them.

"Ryan! Look!" called Kimiko as she pointed ahead, Ryan looked up and saw the pipe led to a doorway that went deeper into the core. Ryan leapt onto it and they both fell to the floor as they hit still ground at full speed.

"Oww…" groaned Kimiko "That hurt…"

She gasped as she looked up and saw the energy was still coming towards them. Ryan immediately leapt to his feet and dived between her and the energy.

"Singala Spectumise!" yelled Ryan; there was a burst of yellow light from Ryan as his body became pure electricity. There was a loud bang as the energy hit Ryan, but he was holding it back from hitting Kimiko.

"Ryan…" said Kimiko.

"Kimiko!" yelled Ryan "Deactivate the energy field! Hurry! I don't know how long I can hold this back…"

Kimiko looked franticly around her, she had to find out how to do it before she and her boyfriend would be turned into Kentucky fried chicken. She saw a switch on the wall with the words, "DO NOT TOUCH" written in big red lettering. She slowly reached out to it, but hesitated as she turned back to Ryan.

"Ryan!" called Kimiko "I…I don't know…"

"Kimiko!" cried Ryan as he began to slip backwards, "I don't care what you do! Just do it! Please!"

Kimiko bit her lip as she spun around, grabbed the switch and pulled it down. Suddenly the sound of crackling energy got quieter as energy arcs stopped forming in the energy field, she sighed with relief as the energy around Ryan disappeared, leaving him to fall to the floor with a thud.

"Oh my god! Ryan!" gasped Kimiko as she ran to his side, "Ryan! Are you okay?"

"One…" groaned Ryan as he looked up at her.

"One?" said Kimiko "What's one?"

"One down…" said Ryan as he slowly got up, "One to go…"

"Yeah" said Kimiko as she helped him up, "We got to shut down the other one now"

"We best hurry" said Ryan as he stretched, "Everyone is still counting on us"

Kimiko nodded in agreement as they both ran towards the next energy field.

In the Core…

09:10 till Earth impact…

Hannibal looked up as he heard a beeping noise; a screen appeared in front of him.

"Hmm…" said Hannibal "I see those fools are no doubt resisting…"

The screen flickered as a view of Chase and Omi still fighting off clones.

"Ha!" laughed Hannibal "Chase went as low as joining the Xiaolin side…Pathetic…"

"Your orders?" said Guardian Angel.

"Send more troops" said Hannibal "I want Chase and cheese head eradicated!"

The screen flickered again to show Clay and Raimundo waiting for the Energy fields to be lifted in the core's cooling plant.

"Look at them!" laughed Hannibal "They're not going anywhere! Nothing can get past the Energy fields without being disintegrated!"

A red siren began to wail, followed by the computer saying "Energy field One has been deactivated" in a monotone voice.

"What!" gasped Hannibal "Guardian Angel! What's going on in there?"

Guardian Angel pushed a button in his sphere and the screen flickered again. Hannibal's eyes widened as it changed to a view of Ryan and Kimiko running ahead towards the next Energy field.

"WHAT!" yelled Hannibal "Ryan is still alive!"

He roared as he bashed the control panel.

"DAMN…THAT…ASSHOLE!" yelled Hannibal in time with his bashing, "WHY…WON'T…HE…GIVE UP…AND…DIE!"

"Your orders?" said Guardian Angel. Hannibal took deep breaths as he looked back at the screen.

"We can't get troops there" said Hannibal "Deploy the Quantum Splinter Bots Delta, Espilon, Zeta, Eta…The whole bloody Greek Alphabet! Use maximum fire power!"

"What about Quantum Splinter Bot Omega?" said Guardian Angel. Hannibal grinned as he looked down at him.

"If Ryan should break through, which there is a chance that he will, we will go head to head with him using Omega…" said Hannibal as he looked towards the centre of the core, the Eclipse Reactor was buzzing loudly, "We must remain on our collision course at all costs…"

"Master?" said Guardian Angel "I have to ask you, why are we sending this to Earth?"

"When the Ibis Cannon backfired, the whole thing was damaged, in the time it would take to fix it, it would of given them enough time to beat us" said Hannibal "If we send this to Earth, we will take out not only a quarter of the world, we will also take out our enemies"

He grinned as he adjusted the Chaos Helmet on his head.

"Once the world sees what I am capable of, they will easily surrender to our army" said Hannibal "And we can always wish for another Shadow Ecliptis, we do have the blueprints and the Treasure of the Blind Swordsman…"

"So why not wish to get rid of the monks?" said Guardian Angel. Hannibal grinned as he jumped down so he was looking face to face with Guardian Angel.

"Now where's the fun in that?" said Hannibal.

Everyone, keep your eyes open, there may be a new story around the corner, written by the people who brought you the "Thunder Child" Trilogy and the award winning "A new life at the temple", its still in its early stages so don't expect anything soon. R&R everyone!