Jack Spicer stood facing the entire gang of Xiaolin Warriors. His face was scared, and he knew there was only one thing that they wanted. "You can't have the Shroud of Shadows!" he said to them, the Shen Gong Wu by his feet. He was still grounded from having more robot parts so he was riding solo for a while, and against a team that never failed to defeat him, was a bad.. very bad thing. He slowly crept down to pick up the cape, his eyes staring at the group with a nervous glare the whole time.
They all stood in a marsh area surrounded by trees. Some of the ground wet and muddy, some of it solid. The majority of it was walkable but some sections were tricky to make sure you wouldn't step in the murky waters that surrounded the entire area.
"You're pathetic," Alyssa wait, stepping out of the group and making Jack pick up the cape and prepare to use it. "Eye of Dashi!" she yelled, pulling out her Shen Gong Wu, the lightning streaking across the air in an attempt to nail Jack. She watched it go right at Jack, no one saying a word. It was obvious he would get hit or drop the Shen Gong Wu in an attempt to hide.
Jack jumped to the ground and screamed, and then realized he still had the Shroud of Shadows in his hand. "Shroud of Shadows!" he yelled in his squeaky voice and put the item around himself and grew silent. He slowly got up and looked around. Everything looked the same. He looked down and didn't see his feet. he truly was invisible. "This Shen Gong Wu is almost as epic as the Monkey Staff," he whispered quietly, sneaking over to Alyssa. He pushed her back and grabbed the Eye of Dashi, and revealed himself. He snickered slightly and how one little miss ruined it for Alyssa.
"You jerk!" Alyssa yelled, running at him, her arms outstretched. She was prepared to ring his neck if she had to just in order to get the Shen Gong Wu back from Jack. Her eyes were full of hate and she yelled vile comments at the boy, and about seven feet from him, she bent her legs and shot forward as if to tackle Jack.
"Ayiee!" Jack yelled frightened, jumping out of the way. He quickly put the Eye of Dashi around his neck and put the cape back on. "Shroud of Shadows!" Once more the boy became invisible to them all. He searched around for more Shen Gong Wu to steal from the group as he rubbed his hands together underneath the invisibility granter as he snickered quietly. Quickly he put his hands over his mouth, remembering they could hear him, and hear him they did, as Kimiko pulled out the Tangled Web Comb.
"Tangled Web Comb!" she yelled, clearing her mind to her best abilities and allowed the comb to send out an entire web of rope-like lines that attempted to wrap themselves around Jack. "Come on," Kimiko muttered quietly. "Get him." It took a clear mind to have the Shen Gong Wu work. If Kimiko thought of anything else besides hitting her target, it would backfire on her.
"Ahhh!" Jack screamed, cowering in fear on the ground. The shroud had fallen off in his fall, and the loud noise had broken Kimiko's concentration, because the ropes turned just before getting near Jack and went at Kimiko, whose face had turned into a nervous stare as the ropes binded her, making her drop the Tangled Web Comb. Feeling lucky, Jack put the cloak on once more and tried running at full speed, but was quickly stopped by Raimundo, who picked the comb up and looked around.
"Where is he?" Raimundo asked the others. He turned around multiple times trying to find Spicer, but what he didn't know was that Jack was just a few inches from him, breathing very slowly with wide eyes as he slowly backed up. "That bastard couldn't have just disappeared," he said, getting on one knee and helping Kimiko out of the trap and then helping her back to her feet. "Good thing we only brought these two Shen Gong Wu, or else he would be able to keep stealing them," Raimundo shrugged.
Omi was in his "tai-chi building" position, but it seemed more like he was meditating. "Wherever Jack Spicer is.. if he makes just a hint of noise, I'll hear it!" Omi said, though it was a lie. He needed perfect silence to keep meditating and sense the area for Jack, which he couldn't have now, but Jack didn't know what.
Clay shook his head. "Omi I think he might have flown away. He hasn't made a single move since Kimiko got caught in the Tangled Web Comb, so he probably left as soon as Rai got it," the cowboy explained.
Crow, who had remained silent throughout the entire ordeal, finally spoke up. "If he's here, the punk would have likely made a noise or tried to steal the Shen Gong Wu from Raimundo's hands. He isn't that bright of a person, even though he claims himself to be a genius," he joked, as he spotted their dragon friend, Dojo, climb out from underneath Clay's hat.
"At least it wasn't so dangerous this time. Usually you kids have me hiding everywhere since you're always fighting rough," Dojo complained, jumping down and transforming. "Alright, let's get ready to go," he said.
Jack had decided to fly back until he saw the dragon, and thought. He was still invisible, and couldn't be detected unless he made too much noise. Steathily, he decided to follow the Xiaolin Warriors and climbed on the very back of Dojo, making the dragon grunt a bit as the others finally finished climbing on.
"You guys are a bit heavier than I remember from our last flight," he commented, as all the monks stared over to the back. Jack tried his hardest to not make noise or shake, but just lay low as he sat, holding on to Dojo's tail, but then realized they weren't even looking at him.
"What?" Clay said from the back. "I ate a big breakfast, so what?" he told them, shrugging off the looks. "Not my fault I can't resist eating when we're having my favorite foods for breakfast!"
"I'm going to quote what I heard Kimiko tell you once," Crow called from behind Omi at the front. "Every food is your favorite," he joked, as Dojo took off, flying through the air at much faster speeds than Jack's helipod.
Jack couldn't hold on too tightly unless he wanted to let Dojo know he was hitching a ride, and couldn't yell like he wanted since he was scared. All he could do was wait for them to land, which luckily for Jack, through the chatter of the Warriors, was soon.
When Dojo landed, Jack was careful to jump off silently, and started to plan his infiltration, though it sounded better in his head than how it truly worked out. He would wait for someone to open the vault and learn how, then steal their Shen Gong Wu and bring them back to Wuya, who in return would stop being mad at him. He thought of how amazing it would be to have the Xang Xee Belt yet again to piss of the Warriors. He also remembered the Sun Chi Lantern's immense danger against him, and he didn't even feel its full wraith.
What went on in his mind went something like: Get the Wu, smash all except Crow. Torture Crow until begging for mercy and drown him in a pool of lava. Take over the world. Whoohoo!
While in his own thoughts, Jack spotted Raimundo walking off with the Tangled Web Comb and started to follow him, an evil, invisible grin on his face. Jack stalked Raimundo all the way to the Xiaolin Vault and watched him mess around with the bells. He was careful to memorise the pattern and hung low, sitting against a wall and watched Raimundo go in and come out empty handed as he left the vault temple, leaving Jack alone.
Jack waited a few minutes before removed the shroud and holding onto it. He rang the bells and the vault opened. "This has to be the easiest infiltration ever!" he said victoriously, running down the steps. He started opening all the drawers, pulling out Shen Gong Wu he found useless. The Third Arm Sash was tied around his wasit and held onto the Sun Chi Lantern. Jack put the Fist of Tebigong on his hand and continued wandering downward.
"This is too easy," he whispered, staring at the spiraling wall containing the mystical objects. "So much power!" he said happily, pulling out the Two Ton Tunic and putting it on over his jacket. He thought, what else would he need? His eyes lit up and he ran, quickly searching for it. "Monkey Staff! Monkey Staff!" he said excitedly as he found his favorite item, pulling it out.
"Now.. I've looked everywhere for those two Wu.. where are they?" he questioned quietly, before feeling the floor slowly rising. "Shroud of Shadows!" he whispered quickly, scared that he would be caught, but he was covered as he came to the top, seeing Raimundo standing there.
"I swear I thought I had closed it!" Raimundo muttered, walking out, scratching the back of his head.
Jack snickered quietly as he followed, removing the came and turning on his helipod and flying away. He gained a haul of the items, thinking. Now he had a tail again, could turn invisible, take chi from surrounding people, punch with incredible skill, have an extra arm and my Jetbootsu let me walk where I want!" The evil boy genius knew Wuya would be happy that he did something right for once, or so he hoped. He was almost done building the Shen Gong Wu finder just in case it ever came that the ghost would leave him. n8
Back at his lab, Jack dropped all of his Wu on a table with a victorious smile. After studying it for a few minutes with a small feeling of pride, he called for Wuya. In terms of evil, he had gone a great good for his side, and when the ghost had seen, she was almost as excited as when she had finally been freed from the puzzle box.
"Jack!" she exclaimed. "This makes up for a lot, how did you manage it?" she asked the boy frantically. "I can't believe you of all people managed to pull this off! You're a dumbass most of the time!" She looked at Jack, who was still holding on to the Monkey Staff. He let everything else of the table though. Wuya examined them, and saw the combinations. "Yes.. just a few more and you'll rise," Wuya whispered quietly, looking up at Jack.
"A new Shen Gong Wu has revealed itself!" Wuya said, her eyes glowing with the image of a helm. She gasped. "This one is very important to get.."
"The Helmet of Jong," Kimiko said, running to them with the ancient scroll. They all gathered around her and watched the picture. The man jumped over arrows that were shot from the back of him. "I'm guessing it gives you eyes in the back of your head," she guessed, closing the scroll.
"Could be useful in the future," Crow said thoughtfully. "Just maybe." It would be useful in showdowns when fighting and their opponent was behind them like Jack did when he first introduced that throw. It would let him duck out of the way and counter with a trip attack and then hop on them and started defeating them harshly. He shrugged the thought off because he knew it was only the dragon speaking, trying to trick him into following an evil path again.
"It doesn't matter if it's useful or not," Raimundo said. "We have to get it and keep it away from the Heylin side. I mean just imagine if we let Jack get another Shen Gong Wu. He'd have four of them, and that's four too many," he explained, turning to walk off. "I'm going to go get a couple Wu so we can go." He left off to the vault.
"Raimundo is right, Jack Spicer must not get this," Omi said. "The more Shen Gong Wu the Heylin have, the more powerful they are, and the more annoying Jack Spicer becomes to defeat. Although I am sure I will always be stronger than him," he told them egotistically with a smile. He recieved looks from each of his friends but he didn't even seem to notice.
"Yeeeahh," Alyssa said, shaking her head. "You're just a little.. full of yourself," she said trying to make a point with the young monk. Ever since they met, Omi had thought himself to be the best of the group, which he often proved, but he also had the most training since meeting them all.
"I do not get it,' Omi told her. "Of course I am full of myself, otherwise I would be dead." He pondered the thought, trying to figure out what she meant.
"Just forget it," Alyssa sighed. "I shouldn't have said anything."
Raimundo appeared silently in the vault doorway. He walked to the bells and rang them in the specific order, making the floor go down by the center, and he walked over to it. As he decended the stairs, he went to the first drawer and opened it. It was empty. "Where's the Two Ton Tunic?" he muttered quietly. He walked down to the next one, and found their Sun Chi Lantern was missing too. "Spicer!" he yelled angrily. He ran down and grabbed their Mantis Flip Coin and ran up.
As Raimundo ran back, he saw Dojo already having the others on his back and waiting. "Mantis Flip Coin!" he yelled, jumping on top of Dojo's back, at the front. "Hurry up Dojo!" he yelled, making the dragon snort angrily and fly up. Raimundo wasted no time explaining to them what happened. "That bastard Spicer stole our Shen Gong Wu! That's why Dojo thought something was heavier," he rushed. "I saw the vault open but just thought I had forgotten to shut it! Jack was in there stealing our Wu! Just with that damn shroud!" he explained quickly.
"Calm down," Crow called from the middle. "We'll get that punk ass. Guaranteed."
Dojo flew to them to a temple in a faraway land. When he landed, Jack Spicer was not yet around, which was currently the way they had wanted it to be. Upon entering the temple, they each started looking arund for the Helmet of Jong in hopes of finding it so they could return back quickly.
Crow and Alyssa ran to search the east side, while Clay and Omi went to the north. Raimundo and Kimiko started their search in the east, and Dojo stayed back in the south, looking around calmly while slithering on the ground in peace. With Jack not there, all was good and quiet as the groups searched around.
Crow sighed, not seeing anything. "Have you found anything yet Alyssa?" he asked the girl, as he looked over to her, but saw her searching high and low for the helm but seeming to have no avail, just as he was.
"Unfortunately no," the girl responded, as she started to climb up something in search. "Wherever the hell this thing is, it's sure hidden well.. or we're just not looking in the right place. The worst thing that could happen is that Jack got here before we did, and that is just something not to think about."
Raimundo was crawling on the ground, looking underneath things and coughing as dust entered his nose and mouth through all his breaths. "This is getting us no where, I don't see anything," he complained angrily. "I hate this Shen Gong Wu, this temple is too dusty."
"Be patient Rai, and just get up off the ground," Kimiko said, as she looked on old, seemingly fragile shelves. "This may be boring but it's important we get the Shen Gong Wu before Jack gets here and finds it." The girl sighed, seeing how they had already searched through almost everything.
Omi and Clay were having the same luck, but there was more for them to search. After they had ran past a giant statue, they had found many artifacts and pots to look through, which just made their work pile up to the point where Clay had started smashing them to make it easier.
"Aww shucks Omi, I don't see anything. Maybe the others found it, or even Jack. Let's go back to see if anything happened," the cowboy suggested to his friend. He saw Omi drop an item he held, which was a vase that was now smashed up. It contained nothing.
"Yes, let us to report to the others," Omi sighed, running off, Clay tailgating right behind. When they had come back to the enterance, the monks saw the other four there too, all empty handed. Dojo was talking to them when he saw Omi and Clay.
"Hey, you two, look at the statue's head!" he said, as they all turned, the spotted the Shen Gong Wu at the top of the statue, on the head. "How fitting," Dojo mused to himself.
All six started to walk to the statue, until they heard an evil laugh. "He's here," Crow muttered softly.
Jack appeared near the top of the statue, laughing as he grabbed the helmet and looked down. "You Xiaolin losers!" he said as he helipod levitated him above. "I bet you figured out I stole your Wu! Are you jealous? I don't have to play by the rules like you do!" he taunted, before going back to laughing. He felt something pulling on the helmet and looked down, to see Alyssa had it in her hands.
"Jack Spicer! I challenge you to a Xiaolin Showdown!" she said. "My.. uh..." She didn't have any Shen Gong Wu. Jack snorted a laugh at her, until Raimundo ran up and tossed her their Mantis Flip Coin, which she greatfully caught. "My Mantis Flip Coin against your Shroud of Shadows!"
Jack's laugh turned cold as he spat at her. "Alright fine, name your game," he said. He didn't really want to battle for this Shen Gong Wu- he would never wear something so ugly!
"A simple game of the floor is lava! The first one to touch the floor is the loser!" Alyssa decided after a few seconds of thinking it over. With her Mantis Flip Coin, she could dominate Jack and they could be on their way with the Shen Gong Wu.
"I accept your challenge!" Jack said, and as soon as he did, they both yelled: "Let's go! Xiaolin Showdown!"
The area around them rose in random platforms, all of which were small. Alyssa and Jack stood on a particularly big one, and then the arena filled with "lava" all around the bottom, as the platforms rose up from the ground. It wasn't exactly not touching the floor as much as falling but it was in the same idea.
"Gong Ye Tempai!" they both yelled.
"Mantis Flip Coin!" Alyssa said, activating the Shen Gong Wu and jumping backwards, landing on a smaller platform. She was looking around for places to jump, and hopped over to another one, just to the west of their starting point, and more importantly, Jack. "You're going down Spicer!" she yelled, jumping at Jack with all intention to win this battle and gain back at least one Shen Gong Wu that they had lost.
"Aiyee!" Jack screamed, jumping to the platform that Alyssa had first gone to. "Shroud of Shadows!" he yelled, hiding himself. Now that Alyssa couldn't see him, this battle was just either the first one who missed, or, how Jack decided to do it, pushing the other off into the lava. He jumped to the same platform as Alyssa, but made noise loud enough for the girl to hear.
Alyssa looked over to the ground, and tried to kick it. She hit something and knew instantly what it was. "Hah!" she yelled in joy. "Spicer!" she grabbed at the invisible boy, but something instead grabbed her arm and threw her down towards the lava. "Mantis Flip Coin!" she yelled in surprise, making sure her legs caught the side of the platform and instantly let her jump to another. She sighed in relief.
Jack growled but let her have her moment before he jumped to a few platforms away and let her try to guess where he was. His plan was to let her get in front of him, and then he would push her, but however it worked, if it worked, he would do it. He was about twenty feet now away from Alyssa, two platforms ahead, one platform to her left. He noticed a small rock to his side and snickered, picking it up, and throwing up on a platform with in front of him.
Alyssa still couldn't see Jack, and started playing island hopping until she heard a noise. "Got ya!" she called, jumping onto the platform and throwing kicks and punches around, trying to hit him. "I know you're here but where the hell are you!" sheyelled frustrated.
Jack took his oppotunity and seized it, jumping on the platform and pushing the girl, watching her fall and scream as she fell, and smiling to himself as he took off the cloak, and looked down. It was over, he had won again. "This cloak is my favorite.. besides my Monkey Staff," he said, as the showdown ended.
Everything turned back to it's normal state in a few mere seconds, and the group of Warriors ran to meet Alyssa, helping her up. Jack was flying away, his signature laugh taunting and making all of the members angry and ready to kill him.
"Fuck you Spicer," Crow muttered, as they walked back to Dojo, and got on the dragon. "He shouldn't have won."
The others agreed among themselves about that cloak being a dangerous item for Jack to have.
As the monks returned to the temple, they all immediately went back to training. It would be needed in order to beat Jack now. It just didn't seem right, losing twice to Jack, one being in a showdown. Somehow, he always managed to get something powerful and defeat them, but they would always end up on top.
They hoped.. this was the case again.
Wuya smiled as Jack laid out the items before her. "Soon.. Mala Mala Jong.. soon.." she laughed evily. "Soon the world will be mine."
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