"Jack Spicer! Give back the Xang Xee Belt!" Omi yelled, running at him, smashing through a robot. They were currently in a desert nicknamed by Dojo the desert of hell, mainly because of it's extreme heat and dangerous creatures that lived there, but it's vast area would also make for an annoying place to find one cactus with a black belt on it. Unfortunately, Jack had easily found it and gotten it moments before the Xiaolin gang got to it's location.
Omi jumped over the next two bots that were in his path and he continued quickly to grab the belt, because he knew at the very least he must have a showdown. He pulled something from his sleeve as he ran to reveal his own Shen Gong Wu. "Mantis Flip Coin!" he yelled, jumping at his enemy, doing a flip before landing on his back and kicking him to the ground.
"Ayee!" Jack yelled, as he plummeted, his helipod failing on him. It deactivated as he touched ground, but what didn't happen was him dropping the Wu like Omi planned. Omi fell back to the ground and stared at him. The other warriors were battling off the bots, so he couldn't let Jack get away. He grew calm, and nine dots appeared on his forehead. "Jack SPicer, you will not get away!" he yelled, lunging at Jack, who tried to get out of the way but was not fast enough. Omi though, only grabbed the very end of the belt and smiled triumphantly.
"Jack Spicer, I challenge you to a Xiaolin Showdown!" he said quickly, before Jack could open his pathetic little mouth and speak. "The challenge is hide and seek. Whoever is seen first is the loser!" Omi challenged.
"I accept your challenge," Jack spat back. "My Monkey Staff against your Mantis Flip Coin!" Jack was thinking, but first he needed more information with this challenge.. they were in a flat area with no place to hide.
The two glared at each other, as the area around them shifted. Wand walls started to grow, and twists and turns were created around the entire section. The rest were all brough up on a giant platform and could see them both. Jack was behind a slightly tall wall and Omi standing just a few hundred feet away from him. Both of them had to yell to be heard. "Gong ye tempai!"
Omi started by running and hiding behind a wall and risking a glance behind it, not seeing Jack. He climbed to a far corner and looked around see the sides, from all angles, and continued on by climbing up the side of the wall. How the monk could climb up things was a mystery, but he never seemed the least bit why of showing off his skill, even if no one was watching.
Crow glanced, seeing Jack had yet to make a move, he just stood there with his staff. "What's he planning..?" he muttered quietly. Omi was nearing Jacj, but all Jack did was stare up. Surely if Omi took any other path then he'd be fine, but if he continued climbing up like that he'd be ruined.
Jack continued watching the wall, knowing Omi would keep going towards him. With his staff he could hear much better than before, and easily listened as Omi came into hearing range. "Come on badly," he whispered, his hands as fists. "I need this Wu since my bots can't take you down.."
Omi thought for a moment after jumping down. What if Jack Spicer would be watching the from the sides of the wall? He decided to go the right since he likely wouldn't be thinking of it and started running.
Jack heard him and smiled, turning on his helipod and flying up, seeing Omi. "Guess what baldy? You lose." The showdown instantly ended and the arena turned back into the flatland area it had once been, and Jack stood, facing Omi. Snickering, Jack tied the belt around his wasit, and his eyes widened.
The Xang Xee belt was a Shen Gong Wu or great power- literally. Anyone who wore it obtained great martial arts powers to double their strength and agility, making anyone a worthy opponent, though it had a drawback. All the user would want to do is fight, and that was happening to Jack.
Jack ran up to Omi, who seemed overconfident and jumped, trying to kick Jack, but his foot was caught in midair and he was throw at the others who watched with shocked looks. Jack having power was not a good thing. If he ever tried learning to get more strength he would be a dangerous opponent.
"You there, Crow, I still hate you for all the stuff you've done to me," he spat, growling. "You're up next." He rememebred the robots and humiliating defeat for the Tiger Claws. Crow seemed stupid enough to step up to the challenge.
"You're going down punk, you got lucky. All the talent in the world but you won't beat me." He smirked slyly as Jack ran at him and got into a fighting stance, before kicking his leg out as Jack was just six feet away. With his speed he surely couldn't stop, but weirdly enough he jumped over Crow, and landed behind him.
Jack reached behind him and grabbed Crow's neck. "What? No chains?" he questioned, throwing the boy in front of him. "No problem." He thought it was all over, but Omi jump kicked Jack in his back, making him trip of Crow, who quickly got back up and jumped next to Omi.
The others seemed to be preparing to leave, maybe as a quick gettaway or their confidence in their fellow monks.
Jack got up and turned around, his gaze upon them. "You two don't stand a chance, even together," he said. "Jackbots! Help me destroy my enemies!" About ten robot came and Crow nodded to Omi, jumping up and grabbing two of them by their "necks" and throwing them at Jack. When he landed on the ground, Jack was destroying them with a slight look of sadness, and Crow came up from behind and shoved Jack.
Omi pushed him back, and soon it was like what the gang members did to Alyssa. "This is most certainly entertaining!" the monk said, as Jack was pushed to ihm, but this time to jumped up and landed a punch to Jack's face, then swept his legs as Crow quickly took care of the other bots.
"Nice going Omi," he said, as the two started walking towards Dojo and the other monks, who had just been watching. "We could have used your help and been out of here already," Crow said, stepping past Jack, but when he did, a hand grabbed onto his ankle and tripped him.
"Jackbots! Prisoner!" Jack cried, getting up and leaving his bots to restrain Crow. He looked at the warriors. "You guys want him back? You'll have to win a fight. And next time wont' be so easy since Crow is going to give me lessons. Or die." Jack gave his evil laugh and started to fly off. "Evil boy genius out!"
Clay watched them leave. "That no good.." He shook his head and clenched his fist as Omi walked over sadly jumping on Dojo and letting the dragon take off.
"That no good bastard," Raimundo sighed. "Guess we need to go rescue him. But with that belt Jack is too powerful for anyone of us to make a mistake."
"It may be but we still can't let him take Crow," Alyssa muttered. "He's important, and besides, every minute he trains with Crow, it's like getting two with that belt. And with his strength growing, he's going to use the training as an excusee to beat him up, and we can't let him go out of commission again.. already."
"Alyssa's right," Kimiko chimed in. "Dojo! Take us straight to the Shen Gong Wu Vault and then we have to get to Jack Spicer's home."
"I'll see what I can do," Dojo said, leaving them all in silence. If they didn't get Crow back in time, Jack would become even stronger than all of them.
/At Jack Spicer's house.
As soon as they landed, the Jackbots led him inside of a room, locking all exits. Jack was watching him. "We fight as soon as I finish talking to WUYA!" he said, yelling the last part.
"Whaaat do you want you whiny little insect?" Wuya said. The purple ghost appeared to be speaking from being Jack, and then flew through him, making Crow shudder a bit. "Weeell well, if it isn't one of the Xiaolin Dragons. I'm surprised you let yourself be captured so easy. Maybe Jack isn't so useless after all."
Jack walked behind her. "Whatever Wuya, we're fighting so I can get stronger," Jack said, attempting to brush her off, before remembering. "Oh yeah.. you're a ghost."
The bots restraining Crow were crushed as he ran backwards into a wall. "If you want to fight.." he said, rubbing his wrists, before returning the attention to Jack. "Then we fight." He ran sideways, jumping up on one of the tables, picking up a spare Jackbot part and tossing it ar Jack, lunging at it, making Jack pick one.
Jack swatted the part out of the way, but was knocked back into another table as Crow smashed his head into him. "You're not going to make me look stupid in my own house, in front of my own robot fans!" Jack said, pointing over to a few robots that were watching, holding up 'We Love Jack!" signs.
Crow's face dropped to a 'what the hell is wrong with you' expression as he looked at the boy again. "You know that belt only gets better if you're doing good in the fight. Getting beaten up isn't going to help," he said, jumping in front of Jack as sending a punch, but Jack's hand shot fast and caught it.
"That's where you're wrong, little birdie," he said, tossing Crow over his shoulder, but much against his taste, Crow landed sideways, his feet on the wall of the room, jumping fast at Jack, trying to hit him with his head again. Jack quickly got out of the way and let Crow hit his head on the floor.
He groaned slightly, getting up and holding onto his head. He felt an icepack be put on it and quickly turned, seeing Jack smile evily, before punching him in his face and making him fly across the room. "Damn.." He jumped back up, but this time let Jack run at him, before pulling a familiar stunt and jumping over him, leaving Jack little time to react before he felt hands around his neck.
"PAYBACK, BITCH!" Crow screamed, tossing Jack into a table, letting him slide and hit all the robot parts on them, making them fall to the ground. He ran over to Jack and grabbed him by his shirt collar, lifting him up and punching him in the face, before realizing what he was doing. "Shit," he muttered, seeing Jack's face in a dumb smile as he was hit. Every hit gave Jack more power, and more knowledge about Crow's fighting style.
While still raised in the air, Jack's smile turned harsh as he did a move illegal in almost every fighting match ever created with men, and kicked Crow in the crotch, making him release Jack and fall on the ground, doubled over in pain. "Owww," he said, falling over.
Jack stood on the ground neck to him, and kicked him. "That's right punk, feel the strength you gave me, and the hate I have towards you in the once place a man should NEVER be hit!" He laughed evily, but noticed Crow continued staying on the ground. "Maaaybe I hit too hard," he questioned, walking off, but his ankle was grabbed.
"Nope. I don't feel pain so easy. I let you walk into the same trick you gave me in the desert," he said coldly, bringing him to the ground.
Both of them jumped up and backed up slowly til they were at opposite sides of the room, against walls. "YAHHHHHHHHH!" they yelled, running att each other, fists cocked back, and then then punched at each other.
Jack's arm was longer.
/In the Xiaolin temple vault.
Master Fung was handing his monks Shen Gong Wu. "For Kimiko, the Eye of Dashi, and for Alyssa, the two-ton tunic," he said, sighing. "While you're off on your mission, get any Shen Gong Wu you can get back. We only have two I can give you. The claws are much too dangerous to risk giving."
"Yes Master Fung," Omi nodded. "It was my fault that we lost two. I must retrieve them," the monk promised. He looked at Clay and Raimundo. "We don't have any Shen Gong Wu to use but we still have our strength to get Crow back," he lectured.
"Well let's go. Who knows what Spicer's done to Crow already," Raimundo said, running off. He went outside to see Dojo and got on his back. "They'll be here in a second."
Clay watched him run off and nodded. "He's right," Clay said, hurrying off, Omi following behind and running in front, getting on the dragon behind Raimundo.
Master Fung looked at the two girls. "You must absolutely, at all costs, keep hold of those Shen Gong Wu. Do not let Jack Spicer get them." With that, the two girls nodded and ran off.
"Kimiko, let's do good," Alyssa said as they ran, and jumped on Dojo, who quickly took off.
/Riding on Dojo.
"If we lose these then we're doomed. And even if we aren't held as prisoners, which we will be, then we would never be able to beat Jack, who would continue to use Crow as a puppet just for that one defeat."
Omi looked back at her. "Do not worry Alyssa," he started, "we will get him back from the likes of Jack Spicer. You know what they say, Jack Spicer is a whack kid who tripped over himself!"
Omi got blank looks until Raimundo snapped his fingers. "He's a whack punk who's tripping over himself!" he said, feeling proud of himself. "Wait.. Omi what the hell man that didn't even make sense." He sighed and just watched where they continued going, until a pretty big house appeared in view and Dojo landed. "I think this is it. I'm trying to keep the scent of the recently activated Wu," Dojo said.
Kimiko kicked a few broken robots around. "This looks like the place," she said, confirming their whereabouts.
/At Jack's house.
The team ran to the back and listened to fighting, and had Clay kick a door open. They saw Crow on the floor and Jack with a fist above his head. Kimiko and Raimundo quickly ran off at different directions, Kimiko holding out her Wu. "Eye of Dashi!" she called, a lightning bolt shooting at Jack, who used incredible skill to jump over it, but gave Crow enough time to jump up and get back, staggering to the door, a bloody nose. He held on to the doorknob for support and watched this new fight.
"Guys! Stop fighting! Every move you make will make him stronger!" he called, but they didn't have much time. Clay was next to Crow, eyeing the Monkey Staff, but Crow had an idea. "Wait, Clay.. I know how to win this staff from him and make him lose all his power at once," he said, running and jumping on the table with the Monkey Staff.
"Heeeeey Jack!" he taunted, making Spicer look at him and scream.
"MY STAFF!" he yelled, running and grabbing onto it. Crow quickly grabbed on and started speaking.
"I challenge you to a Xiaolin Showdown! The game is cry uncle!" he said, making Jack laugh, but upon hearing the next part he grew silent. "Any words count as uncle, so anything you say after it starts makes you lose."
"I accept!" Jack said. "With this belt you'll never beat me! You don't even have a Wu to wager!"
Kimiko ran up and handed Crow the Eye of Dashi. "You won't be able to use it but.." she told him. Crow put the necklace on and glared at Jack. "Let's go.."
"XIAOLIN SHOWDOWN!" they yelled. Jack's lab grew into a giant area, the Monkey Staff floating high above them both. "GONG YE TEMPAI!"
Jack ran at Crow, but Crow fell on the ground, making Jack try to stomp on him, but he was faked out when Crow raised the Eye of Dashi, and he quickly rolled away, jumping up, and throwing a punch at Jack, but it was caught and he was thrown over Jack's shoulder.
Crow made little noise but jumped back up, and threw a fake-out punch and jumped to Jack's right, reaching for the Xang Xee Belt, but Jack jumped out of the way, a nervous look on his face. All Crow had to do was get the belt and it would be all over.
Jack moved slyly towards Crow and tried for an uppercut, but Crow moved an inch back and went and headbutted Jack in his stomach, before roundhouse kicking him with the back of his foot and sendind Jack flying. Jack wanted to scream but couldn't, and Crow could see the torture on his face.
Crow ran at Jack, but Jack jumped up and sent a wild punch, hitting Crow in his face and making him retreat for a second, but Crow smirked as he thought of a plan.
"Well I see Jack is doing quite well for this challenge. I wish he was always quite like this," came a ghostly voice, shocking all the warriors. Wuya watched the fight with interest.
Crow ran and slid trying to trip Jack, who merely jumped up, but then Crow was behind him and grabbed the belt as he quickly turned and ripped it off, his eyes telling Jack to back off. He tied the belt around his wasit and slowly wakled towards Jack. He mouth the words 'Cry uncle', as he winded up a punch.
"UNCLE!" Jack yelled, falling on the ground and hiding. The Monkey Staff fell down in front of Crow, who picked it up.
"You're pathetic. You're still wearing the belt. It's black like mine, but all I did was make you think I ripped it off, and then pretended to tie another one on mine," Crow said triumphantly, as the room shanged to normal. Jack's belt undid itself and flew to Crow, and walked away to his teammates.
They cheered him on for his quickly thinking. Kimiko had the Mantis Flip Coin and Clay grabbed the Tangle Web Comb. As the left, screaming could be heard from Wuya to Jack, insulting him for his failure.
/Riding on Dojo.
"I think this Shen Gong Wu shouldnt be used. It's too dangerous, all he wanted to do was fight, like he couldn't feel himself," Crow explained to the others, as they saw their stash. "And now Jack is going to have to work extra hard to ever get caught up."
As the group landed back at the temple, Crow only had one last thing to say. "And I got to humiliate him again."
(This chapter took me too long to think of and make. Sorry guys. I still love you for reviewing. 3)