DISCLAMER: It may be chapter 19, but XS still doesn't belong to me.
Force of the Virus
Jack sat in his lab; he was sitting at his large computer. He furiously typed on the keyboard; he was trying to invent a program that would improve his robots.
"Come on, just a few more symbols…" he whispered.
A message came up on the screen, alerting that there was a virus in his computer. Seeing this, Jack clicked on his anti virus program. After a few minutes, the message came up again.
"What? Okay, I'll look through my files…" thought Jack.
He scrolled down all his files, there weren't any virus infected ones. He then scanned his computer again; he then realized what he had done.
"The program I'm writing is a virus!" he exclaimed.
He looked at the complex string of numbers and letters he had created.
"This is great! Its immune to all anti virus programs, I can use it to take over the world! I think I'll call it Spice, that's it!" he whispered.
He isolated his newly created program on a CD; he took the disk from his disk tray.
"I'll make more of it later!" he thought.
Meanwhile, it was morning at the xiaolin temple. Nobody had got up yet, they were all still mourning master monk Guan. When they did, Raimundo was first. He walked through the corridors, waking up Kimiko and Clay. When he came to Omi's door, he thought that the little monk would be still furious at Reid.
"Let's give the little partner a few more minutes," whispered Clay.
"Poor Omi, Guan was his hero…" added Raimundo.
They walked into the garden to get a big surprise, master Fung was talking to Sheila and Proto.
"Rai! It's that robot from before!" Kimiko gasped.
Master Fung walked up to the three warriors.
"Young warriors, Proto and Sheila have asked if you'd like to come with them to retrieve a new Shengongwu. Proto had detected it earlier," he said.
"But master, that robot's one of Jack's machines!" said Kimiko.
"I know, but Sheila explained that he is now good. It seemed that he never wanted to harm anybody," Fung explained.
They walked up to the wood dragon and robot.
"Okay, we'll be happy to come," said Raimundo.
"I shall come too, now that evil has grown stronger, the side of righteousness needs more support," Dojo said, swooping onto Raimundo's shoulder.
Raimundo activated the Silver Manta Ray and they all hopped inside, Sheila and Raimundo sat next to each other.
"So Sheila, what is this new wu?" the Shoku warrior asked the Wudai warrior.
"It's the Switcher-Wu, it makes anybody standing around it when it spins swap bodies with the person standing next to them," the wood warrior explained.
"Sounds very intriguing," said Dojo, preening his feathers.
The silver craft took off into the sky, they headed to Ghana. The wu was located in an area of forest known as the Dahomey Gap. They landed in the grassland, just outside the forest.
"This looks like the place," said Sheila.
Meanwhile, Jack had found a more interesting thing to do with his computer virus.
"I can use my old time machine to make this virus into a solid entity! Then I'll have an evil monster slave to do my bidding!" laughed Jack.
An alarm went off on his computer; it was the Shengongwu that had been detected.
"Ah phooey, I'll just send in two of my villains," he said.
He randomly selected two villains with his computer: Sentaibot Red and Chameleon Bot. They immediately ran from their quarters and into Jack's new jet, they blasted off towards Africa.
"Okay, now to get this thing working…" whispered Jack.
He used his supreme computer knowledge to adjust the machine; he then inserted his virus disk into the computer. He wired up his hard drive to the time machine, electricity began to charge through it. He squealed with delight as his virus began to materialize.
"Come on baby!" he squealed.
Sparks flew as the machine stopped working, it had deposited the creature. It had a grey body, covered in yellow lights. It had two beady eyes and a jagged mouth, its two tentacles lashed about. The whole creature resembled a head with two tentacles.
"Speak to your master, Spice!" boomed Jack, he wanted to give a good impression to his "Baby".
The virus looked up at him.
"Black Hat, A&A, Gotcha, Jeefo, Trojan, ILOVEYOU, Mailissa, SevenDust, ZMist?" it warbled.
It ambled around Jack's feet, prodding them with its tentacles.
"This is great! He's also pretty cute," said Jack.
He felt in his pockets for his camera.
"Oh, wait here a second, I'll take a picture with my camera!" he said.
He ran out of the lab and locked the door, leaving his creature alone.
"Chameleon Bot and Red, Me and Sheila challenge you to a shen yi bu dare! Me and Sheila's Black Beetle, Ruby of Ramses, Wushu Helmet and Serpents Tail against your Tickle Takko, Thunder Horns, Aquabrella and Mortal Shock!" shouted Kimiko, she and her partner had touched the Switcher-Wu at the same time, along with the two villainous robots.
"The game shall be rolling the dice! Chameleon Bot and Kimiko shall go on two separate paths, separated into twenty squares. Sheila and I shall roll a die each, the number it rolls shall be the number of places you have to go forwards! You can only use each of your wu once!" said Red.
"Let's go! GONG YE TAMPAI!"
The scenery changed to an empty void where two paths floated, each one was twenty squares long. A large circular platform was where Sheila and Red stood; each had a large white die.
"I shall roll first!" shouted Red.
He tossed the die, it landed on 6. Chameleon Bot moved that number of places forwards, he was now on square 6. Sheila rolled her die, it was a 3. Red rolled afterwards, landing on a 4, his partner was now on square 10.
"Come on, they're half way there!" shouted Raimundo.
"We can't help it!" shouted Kimiko.
The Australian warrior rolled her die again; it was a 5, so Kimiko was now on square 8.
"A few more rolls and we shall win!" chuckled Chameleon Bot.
Red rolled his die, Chameleon walked all the way to square 14. Sheila flung her die, but it landed on a measly 2, Kimiko was now on square 10.
"Come on
6!" laughed Red as he rolled his die again.
"RUBY OF RAMSES!"
Kimiko used the wu to make the die land on 1, now the robot team was on square 15.
"That was cheating!" growled Red.
"No it wasn't!" said Kimiko.
Sheila shouted as she rolled the die, it landed on a 3, moving Kimiko to square 13. Red rolled the die on a 2, Chameleon Bot was now on square 17.
"They're still ahead!" called Clay.
"Not for long!" replied Sheila.
She rolled the Die on a 4, Kimiko was now on square 17. Both teams needed a 3 to win.
"Don't give up hope!" called Proto.
"You can do it!" cheered Raimundo.
Red rolled his die, it was a 4. He needed a 3, so Chameleon Bot didn't move.
"Come on lady luck!" shouted Kimiko.
"Okay, here goes!" said Sheila.
She rolled her die, it was a 2. Kimiko moved to square 19.
"Once more!" roared Red.
He rolled a 6, still it wasn't low enough. Sheila rolled a 5, still too high.
"My turn!" growled Red.
He rolled a 1, his partner jumped to square 18. Sheila prepared to roll the die.
"THUNDER HORNS!"
Red became a golden bull, he charged forwards and hit Sheila off the edge.
"That no good monster!" Clay shouted.
Sheila screamed as she almost fell, but luckily she held onto the ledge. She pulled herself up and over.
"Not good enough!" she grinned.
She was about to roll the die.
"TICKLE TAKKO!"
Red tickled Sheila with the tentacles of his wu; she giggled and accidentally dropped the die when she wasn't ready.
"Oh no!" moaned Kimiko.
"Come on!" whispered Raimundo.
"We're going to win!" Chameleon Bot chuckled.
They watched the die spin for a couple of seconds; it suddenly stopped on a 1. Kimiko's team had won.
"What a miserable defeat," said Red as the scenery became its normal self ", we lost four Shengongwu!"
"Brothers, why don't you come on the side of good?" asked Proto.
Chameleon Bot laughed loudly.
"No way!" he said.
They jumped away, leaving their four items behind, Kimiko and Sheila returned to their friends with the new wu.
"Here's the camera!" said Jack.
He lifted his camera out of the refrigerator, he didn't have an idea how it wound up there.
"Coming!" he sang.
He walked down the steps to his lab; he slowly opened the door, waiting to see his creature.
"Its gone!" he shouted.
The creature was nowhere to be seen, it had escaped back into the computer. Jack knelt down and wept.