You Remind Me

Chapter Four

Bellaluna

Disclaimer: I do not own Xiaolin Showdown.

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Chapter Four

Kimiko was shocked beyond all reason. She stood there in the middle of the huge, walk in closet, her head spinning with delight. Her eyes were opened wide, and her mouth was gaping open. Jack, however, stood all the way back at the entryway of the closet, only his head poking inside. It was as if he was too frightened to even enter. He was in such a state, that he practically jumped out of his skin when Kimiko spun around, a huge smile on her face, and a rosy tint in her cheeks.

"Jack! This is awesome!" she exclaimed.

"It…it is?" Jack said warily. "I wasn't sure you'd…"

"Yeah! It's great!"

"Well, I couldn't have you running around doing evil with only a ripped up robe on!" Jack said to her matter-of-factly.

"Oh, right," Kimiko said and dropped her head to look at her current, dilapidated ensemble.

"Yeah, so I'll just go and let you do your thing," Jack said as her turned around, trying to keep his cool. "So just do whatever when you're done. I'll find you if I need you."

"Okay, thank you!" Kimiko said and smiled once more before she began her search through the giant closet of clothes. She wondered where they had all come from, but then again, if she had been staying there helping him, then they were probably her own.

Truth be told, the clothes actually belonged to Jack's mother. It was an odd habit she had picked up. She always bought, new, trendy clothes, that were far to young, not to mention small, for her, bring them home and then never even attempt to wear them. Jack figured she was either having a midlife crisis, or had rather have had a daughter than a son. In either case, Jack had told himself that he didn't care.

Jack quickly vacated the spare room in which the closet was located and headed back for his lab. Due to the interruption yesterday, he still had lots of repairs to make to his Jackbots. When he arrived he was disappointed to see that Wuya was there. She was hovering near the door, as if she had been waiting for him.

"So?" she asked point blank. "How did things go with our little Xiaolin Warrior?"

"Fine, fine," Jack said, waving his hand nonchalantly in the air as he made his way back to his seat. "She ate it all up. She thinks that she's in my debt now, and that's why she's helping collect the Shen Gong Wu. I explained about the Xiaolin losers, and showdowns and such and she wasn't even remotely bothered by any of it. She just took it all in."

"Good, good," Wuya nodded, her ghostly tentacles clasped together. "She's been fed the lie, so now all we need to do is test her."

"Test her?" Jack said. "And how exactly are we going to do that?"

"The next showdown…will be hers to battle."

---

Omi, Raimundo and Clay were all very quiet that afternoon. After an entire night without Kimiko returning, their fears were becoming reality. They knew that something bad had happened to her and they had no way of finding her. They had just finished up their morning chores, and had sat down to lunch, but none of them had any appetite at all. They all sat there with full plates and empty stomachs. Clay was the first to say anything.

"Well darn it, maybe we should get back to that forest and look for Kimiko some more instead of sitting here doing nothing," he said, looking up from his plate.

"I quite agree with you Clay," Omi nodded. "But we searched the forest for hours yesterday and nothing came of it. She has perhaps moved on and is unable to find her way home?"

"Well if she hadn't been so stupid and run ahead of us…" Raimundo spat out angrily. He sounded as angry as ever, but really he was just too worried about Kimiko to make any sense of his emotions.

"Raimundo!" the two other boys' shouted, offended by his remark.

Before anything else could be said on the matter Dojo charged into the room. He screeched to a halt and gasped for air. "There you guys are!" he gasped. "I looked everywhere for you."

"What's the matter there Dojo?" Clay asked.

"Did you find out something about Kimiko?" Raimundo wondered hopefully.

"Sorry, but no," the dragon replied with a sad expression. "There's a new Shen Gong Wu activated though. We have to go now!"

"Of course," Omi nodded.

"But…" Raimundo said hesitantly.

"Come on partner," Clay said, giving Raimundo a reassuring pat on the back. "We're gonna see Kimiko again, but right now we have a job to do. The world isn't gonna start saving itself anytime soon."

"Right," Raimundo nodded, attempting to smile a bit. Together the three warriors and their dragon companion hurried outside and took flight.

---

After getting the news from Wuya that another Shen Gong Wu had been activated Jack hurried back up to the spare room where he left Kimiko. He burst into the room without any hesitation, only to have his eyes rest upon a just-dressed Kimiko. Jack mentally cursed. He had almost burst in on her half naked. That would have made this bad situation a thousand times worse. He knew something like that certainly would have brought out Kimiko's inner wrath.

"Oh, Jack!" Kimiko gasped, surprised by his sudden entrance. "Did you need something?"

"Y-yes," Jack nodded, attempting to distract himself from how cute Kimiko looked in her new outfit. He shook his head to clear it then went to work mode. "Yes, a new Shen Gong Wu has activated. We need to go after it."

"Already!" Kimiko exclaimed. "No way!"

"Hey, hey," Jack said smoothly, putting his arm around her shoulder. "Take it easy Kimiko. I swear, you're a natural, so you're going to do fine."

"A-alright," Kimiko nodded and took a deep breath. "I'm ready."

"That's my girl."

---

"There it is!" Dojo shouted.

Omi, Clay and Raimundo looked down to the ground as Dojo began to land. They seemed to be in the middle of nowhere, a desert. The dry heat was murder on them, so all three of them silently vowed to get this over with quickly. When they had reached the sand of the desert the three warriors jumped off Dojo's back and went to work, searching for the Shen Gong Wu. Fortunately they had much better luck finding the Shen Gong Wu, then they had with finding Kimiko. The Wu was laying right on top of the hot sun. Omi hurried over to it, his small hand reaching out to grab it, just as another one, this one donning a black glove.

"Jack Spicer!" Omi exclaimed, frowning.

"Hey there Opi," Jack smirked. "Looks like I'm going to challenge you to a Xiaolin Showdown. But first…why don't you pick a partner?"

"A partner?" Omi blinked, not understanding. "But there is only one of you Jack Spicer; two against one would not be fair."

"Exactly," Jack cackled. "Xiaolin losers, I'd like you to meet my partner."

As he spoke one of his Jackbots descended to the ground, but it was not empty handed like the other bots. This Jackbot carried…

"Kimiko!" Raimundo, Omi and Clay gasped.

"Hello boys," Kimiko said, attempted to keep a strong appearance. She jumped off the Jackbot and stood next to Jack. "Ready to play?" Jack couldn't help but grin at Kim's words. She was good at witty banter!

"Kimiko what are you doing?" Omi asked. "This is quite cleaned up!"

"Its 'messed up' there Omi," Jack said. "And there's nothing messed up. Kimiko works with me."

"Kimiko you couldn't possibly…" Raimundo stepped forward. "Doing that's a mistake and you and I both know it. Why?"

"All right then," Jack interrupted. "You two against us, your Mantis Flip coin and Tangleweb comb against our Lotus Twister and Fists of Tebigon. The challenge is, the Shen Gong Wu is buried in the sand, first to find it wins."

"I…" Omi said hesitantly and looked from Jack to Kimiko to Raimundo.

"We accept!" Raimundo replied rashly.

"We do?" Omi blinked.

"Good," Jack grinned.

"Gong Yi Tempi!"

The Shen Gong Wu suddenly sunk into the sand and mini sinkholes of quick sand appeared all around them. The four of them leapt away from the spot they were at because it had turned into one of the sinkholes. Kimiko, Jack and Omi went right to work, digging for the Shen Gong Wu. Raimundo however went right to Kimiko. He reached out and grabbed her by the arm.

Jack watched out of the corner of his eye from where he stood. 'This is it,' he thought. If Kimiko had truly lost her memory then she would have no problem fighting her past ally. At least, that's what Wuya had told him.

Kimiko gasped at Raimundo grabbed her arm. She stood up and tried to pull away but his grip on her was too tight.

"Let go of me!" she shouted, still pulling.

"No way Kimiko!" Raimundo said. "What do you think you're doing?"

"I'm finding the Shen Gong Wu!" she replied. "And I'd appreciate it if you'd butt out!" she cried. Out of nowhere she jumped up and swiftly kicked Raimundo in the stomach. He shouted out and stumbled to the ground in pain, holding his stomach. Kimiko, now released, rolled back to her spot and went back to digging. Raimundo wasn't giving up though. He got to his feet and pulled out the Tangleweb comb.

"Tangleweb comb!" he shouted. The web-like material of the comb shot out and wrapped itself around Kimiko, knocking her down. She attempted to squirm out but to no avail. "Come on Kimiko, quit it. I don't know why you're doing this but it has to stop…" Raimundo said as he approached her.

Kimiko glared at Raimundo as he walked over to her. "I won't lose to you!" she shouted, and managed, with her free hand to hold out the Lotus Twister. "LOTUS TWISTER!" she shouted and used her extended arm to grab Raimundo by the legs and toss him all the way across the designated showdown area, right next to one of the sinkholes. The Tangleweb comb slipped out of Raimundo's hand and into the quick sand. Kimiko was released from the web's hold and she went back to work once more.

Jack laughed victoriously as he kept digging. She really didn't care about the Xiaolin losers anymore. She was the perfect partner in his world domination. She'd do whatever he told her to now. To make everything all the sweeter, Jack dug his hand into the sand, only to have it hit the Shen Gong Wu.

"Ha!" she cried and pulled it out, holding it in the air for all to see. "Got it!"

"All right!" Kimiko exclaimed from where she was. She only felt bad that she couldn't have helped out more.

The desert went back to its normal, hot, dry atmosphere and Omi, Clay and Dojo hurried over to Raimundo's side. He was just sitting up now after the impact of Kimiko's throw. Kimiko smiled and hurried over to Jack, but as she stepped forward she felt herself sinking down. She gasped in shock as she looked down. One of the sinkholes had been real. She was going deeper into the sand by the second.

"Help! Jack!" she screamed after finding she couldn't get herself of. She was panicking and only making things worse for herself. She was sinking even faster now. Her screams grabbed everyone's attention, and out of instinct, the three warriors hurried to rescue her.Jack hurriedly pocketed the Shen Gong Wu and turned on his helicopter backpack. He hovered over to where Kimiko just before the others reached her.

"Kimiko! Here!" Jack cried and stretched out his hand to her. Quickly she wrapped both of her arms around Jack's and held on for her life. Once Kimiko had latched on to him Jack grabbed her arms with his free hand and tugged her up and out of the quicksand. When she was safely out he moved his hand and wrapped it around Kimiko's waist, holding her close to him so the helicopter could carry them both as they ascended higher and higher into the air.

"Kimiko!" the others cried from the ground. "Come back!"

"Later losers!" Jack cackled as he, Kimiko and the Jackbots flew off.

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When they arrived back at Jack's house, Wuya was waiting, rather impatiently for them in Jack's lab. "So?" she asked, floating right up in Jack's face. "How did it go?"

"How did it go?" Jack laughed. "It was awesome! We got the Shen Gong Wu, and Kimiko here kicked some Xiaolin butt!" he said and pulled Kimiko closer to Wuya. "She had Raimundo flying through the sky! None of them knew what hit em!"

"Good, very good," Wuya cackled.

Kimiko nervously smiled at Wuya. The ghost would take some getting used to. She then looked down and saw that she was covered in desert sand. "Ah well…if you don't mind," she said. "I'd like to take a bath and get changed."

"Oh yeah, sure," Jack told her. "There's a bathroom two doors down from the room you're staying in. Everything should be all set up for you so go right ahead."

"Thanks…" she said, but Jack was already putting away the Shen Gong Wu and talking to Wuya. A suddenly emptiness came over Kimiko. She felt so out of the loop. She couldn't talk about the Shen Gong Wu with the two of them. She didn't really know what was going on. Yesterday Jack had been very kind and considerate, but after the showdown today he was too wrapped up in Wu to even look at her. Though…he had saved her today from the quicksand; that had to count for something. He had held on so tight to her as the had flown home. It had been nice. She didn't feel so alone. At that very moment though she felt like she could have been the last person on the Earth.