Jack walked out of the Xiaolin territory calmly. He knew no one would attack him before he saw Chase. He sighed. Even if he should try and avoid this he knew avoiding it would be inevitable. Doing so might be even more hazardous to Chance and Jenna. They couldn't know until they were more mature. And Chase could never know.
But he had a bad feeling that he would find out anyway. Chase had a habit of finding out things you would rather him not to. He breathed in the air around him deeply. Growling filled his eardrums.
"If it is all the same to you, I would rather speak to Chase in person before you maim me or worse," he said nonchalantly. A jaguar walked up to him and sniffed him. It growled but walked signaling Jack to follow. He walked barely making a noise. It didn't take long to see Chase. The dragon warlord looked at him. Surprise filled his face. But immediately calmed down.
"Spicer. And here I thought you were dead," he said looking at Jack closely. His body was as lithe as ever. Pale and clean his skin glowed in the darker part of the world. His red eyes held no emotion as he looked at Chase. His hair was no longer its brilliant red contaminated by dyes. Now it was a glistening snowy white, pure and untouched.
"Well you weren't that lucky Chase," he said smoothly. He seemed completely unfazed about seeing Chase, "Here I am alive and well. While you toy with the Xiaolins until you wish for their demise."
Chase cocked his brow. Where had the spastic awkward little fan boy scientist go?
"Too true," he said keeping things simple. Jack sighed.
"Let's cut to the chase, I'm not here for pleasantries. I'm here for an experiment," he said.
"Experiment. Spicer you cannot overpower me," he said.
"Not that kind. I was curious what would you do if I offered up my life. You could kill me. You could turn me into one of your cats. You could make me into a slave. You could train me. You could do anything in your ever-growing power. What would you do?" he asked. No emotion was in his voice. He had seen possibilities of what was to come. He was likely to kill him. He had seen that many times. He could become a slave. A few fewer times he saw enslavement. The more views of the vision the more likely that it would happen. He knew that he was ready to die. He knew that his children would find out eventually. And knowing Chance and Jenna, Jenna would try to kill Chase basically her maiming him. And then Chance would experiment on him until he escaped.
"Are you offering?" he asked. Jack cocked a brow only showing a small emotionless smile as his only hint as to what he was thinking.
"Since when do you ask?" he asked back.
"I don't," he said. He grabbed Jack by his collar and teleported away back to his citadel. Jack looked around. It hadn't changed a bit. Jacks small smile replaced by a small emotionless frown.
"I would've thought that you wouldn't want to spill an insect's blood on your marble floors," he said coolly.
"Blood will not be spilt," he said pushing him down on the ground, "Diol, take him to the laboratory."
"Laboratory?" asked Jack confused.
"I need some new technology that the Xiaolin's will not know how to work," he said.
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Chance frowned. A feeling of ice filled his stomach. He had just finished training with Master Monk Omi and his sister. He looked over toward the north, where most of the Heylin Army was located. The tightness in the stomach grew. His blood red eyes narrowed. He looked back at Omi giving him a quick bow as he left the training field. Jenna looked at him leaving giving her signature glare. Her nose crinkled and her brows lowered in a sick twisted manner.
"Lazy ass," she said angrily. Omi hit the back of her head lightly. She hissed at the pain on her head as she glared at Omi. Her eyes grew slit like at Omi. Her teeth bared in anger.
"What?" she growled angrily. Omi looked her dead in the eyes.
"He is your brother. But he is not you," he said easily. She looked down at the ground.
"But he's not supposed be weak. He's my older brother. He's supposed to be strong. He's supposed to be the strong one," she said softly. Omi patted her head.
"He may not have your physical prowess Jenna, but I am sure that he has his own untapped potential that will bloom," he said just as easily.
"Well what? He can't hit or kick! He can't even defend himself. He's not even trying!" she complained. She was spirited, so much like Jack when he was her age. The same spirited uncontrollable and often emotional person.
"Neither could your father. He never learned really how to fight. He just eventually happened upon very good reflexes," he said with a smile remembering Jack's incident with the Crystal glasses.
"But dad is… he's good at cooking. And sewing our clothes. And helping with boo-bo- I mean injuries," she said, "That can't be all Chance is good at!"
"Perhaps. But perhaps not. You both are still young. Still time to truly grow," he said. He knew the look in Chance's eyes were often curiosity. Never really afraid of anything. He was oblivious to a point but always curious. He thought back to Jack. If he did take after Jack then he would find the actual lab behind the cover up.
Chance was in fact in the lab that Jack had built. The one that they all used to hang out in. Jack used to make little toys for him and his sister. She would play and eventually break the toys while he had a fascination of taking them apart and putting them back together. The lab had many screws and scraps of metal everywhere.
He picked up a screwdriver and began fiddling with a loose screw on an old toy. Unfortunately the screw popped off and rolled behind a cabinet. He sighed and began to try and reach behind the cabinet. What he expected to be a tight squeeze was a bit roomier than he imagined. And was the cabinet moving?
"WOAH!" he cried out as the cabinet wheeled sideways on a train like set up. The cabinet slid letting out a large cloud of dust. A dark corridor seemed to reveal itself. Dim lights flickered on slowly. A soft buzzing sound fills the air. Chance coughed slightly opening his eyes. He looked on the ground.
"Oh, there's the screw," he said scooping it up. He picked himself off the ground and walked back to the table ignoring the corridor. Halfway to the table he stopped and walked backwards and turned to look down the hall. His red eyes blinked and stared down the corridor.
"I could have sworn this was not here… well ever," he said. Without thought he walked down the hall observing how different the structure and style it had to the rest of the temple. Made of slick metal instead of the aging stone. His fingers traced the metal as he walked down the hall. Cool like the toys his father made for him and his sister.
It took a minute before he reached a closed door. He looked at it carefully. It was nothing he had seen before. Like the walls it was slick and silver in color. The handle seemed to have something on it. He placed his hand on it. He felt a prick on his finger that made him let go. The door opened sliding to the side. His eyes widened. Metal. Lots of metal. Of all colors, sizes, and densities. He walked into the large room looking at everything there. What was this place?
He stopped when his eyes fell on something. It was a large blue piece of paper pinned on a board. Walking up to it he saw that it was a blue print. One of a large machine. A large reptilian machine. One that was built to fight. Protect if programed right. He looked at the name written in the corner.
Chase-bot
His eyes narrowed a bit. Chase bot. Who was Chase? His dad never mentioned a Chase. He'd ask him later after asking about this place.
…
Jack frowned being alone in the room. This was not supposed to happen. He was not supposed to end up working like this. This only appeared in his vision once. He sighed as he looked at all the supplies. More than he had used in a while. He thought back to his children. The toys he used to build them. There were flaws in them sure. But they were sturdy unless you knew them. Chance knew them well. He liked to watch him build them.
And if he had to fight the Xiaolin once more then he might as well do something they can beat that Chase will not suspect he is going easy. A large version of his mouse android, a bit more ferocious looking outer design with the same mechanics. But they could be defeated. The only down side was that Chance and Jenna may hate him forever for getting caught up in this. For lying to them. And not telling them who their father was. That they were magic children.
He stood frozen as a new vision entered his head. He saw Jenna, but she wasn't like she normally was. Her nails were long like claws, her forearms coated in white scales. Her nose growing a bit snout like. Her teeth jarred from her mouth like daggers. She was growling at Chase. Chase who stood in his human form with a look of surprise on his face. But soon recovered as they began to attack one another. Chance stood by watching. Little emotion on his stoic face. Robots on either side of him that were not of Jack's design. Slick and of deep brown metal and titanium.
Blood spilt on the ground. The sky itself seemed to be bathed in the red substance. A baby's scream filled the air.
He fell on the ground gasping for air after the vision. His white hair fell over his eyes. His red eyes wide with shock. He stood up using the table to assist him.
That vision. He saw Jenna take after… after their father. Did Chance? Tears pooled in his eyes. He quickly wiped them away. He had no time to waste. For though time waits for no one, it would happen anyway no matter how prolonged it was. Might as well continue on. Jenna and Chance were strong. And the baby cry. Perhaps Raimundo and Kimiko would finally be lucky and have one. After the baby being born this would happen.
He had nine months as a minimum. Perhaps a year or two.
…
Jenna continued training after Omi had left. She began to break a sweat after an hour or so. She never understood her own stamina. Its endless bounds of everlasting energy. Her yellow eyes gleamed as the sun began to set in the distance.
"Jenna," said a familiar voice. She turned to see Chance. Instead of his usual annoyed or sometimes stoic face had a look that rivaled pure glee.
"What?" she asked.
"I have to show you something amazing."
Chapter two. Hope you guys and gals still like this and will review.