"Kidnapped?" Captain Black and Valmont both shouted at the same time after a moment of looking at Tag in complete shock. "Lydia...how...how did it...why did it..." Valmont stuttered in disbelief.
"I don't know" Tag replied to his broken questions, "I wanted to tell Lydia and the girls good morning before starting my day but when I went to her office, she wasn't there. I tried to call her to see what was going on but she didn't answer, and neither did her nieces when I called them. So I drove over to her place and noticed that the interior was wrecked. I looked all over the place and it became clear that something happened to them, especially since her car was parked in front." Tag took a deep breath after recalling the terrible event.
"This is not good", Captain Black sighed,"We need to mobilize immediately!"
Ring ring! Jackie's phone rang while writing a report on an ancient Egyptian vase. "Hello?" he answered. "Jackie, Black" Captain Black answered, "I need you to come to Section 13 immediately. Lydia and her nieces have been kidnapped." Jackie's eyes widened. "Oh no! I'm on my way!" he replied as he grabbed some things and rushed out the door. A few minutes later, he arrived to Section 13. The Enforcers were present, along with Viper and Jade, who had gone rollerblading since Viper had a day off. "Good, you're here" Tag greeted.
"How could have Lydia and her nieces been kidnapped? If someone was going after them they have the muscle power to defend themselves!" Chow exclaimed.
"Did you find any clues?" Jackie asked.
"I found this note and what appears to be a knock-out potion" Tag replied as he took the clues out of his suit coat pocket, "Though I'm not sure how we can begin to identify the criminal!" Everyone looked at the objects and got a closer look.
"Hey" Jade began, "That potion thing is made out of jade! Reminds of that one Chang guy."
Jackie snapped his fingers. "Bartholomew Chang! Jade! That's it! It must be him!"
"I'm da bomb" Jade said proudly, believing that she solved the mystery.
"Are you sure you know who it is?" Tag asked, "There's quite a few crafty criminals out there!"
"I'm with babyface on this one" Viper added, "Chang has always had a special desire for the jade stone, so surely it's him. But how does he know Lydia and why did he kidnap her and the others?"
"That we still need to find out" Tag answered, "I've never heard of Chang before and I'm certain Lydia would have no relations. I suppose it wouldn't hurt to start with him, however."
"If he's the culprit, how are we ever going to find him? He could be anywhere in the world!" Chow exclaimed.
"His house and criminal headquarters is off the coast of Taiwan" Jackie replied, "That would be a good place to start!".
"I agree" Captain Black stated, "I want you all to mobilize and take the fastest jet possible to Taiwan! Tag will come along and I'll stay here for communication. Now move out!"
Everyone dispersed to pick up some quick items for the trip.
"Well Jackie, let's get ready to move out and bust some crime!" Jade exclaimed.
Jackie sighed. "You are not going, Jade. This could be very dangerous."
"Aww but Jackie!" Jade whined, "You know I've been a big help on missions before! And Lydia, Kaysha, Charmaine, and Cassie are my friends. I haveto help save them! Please, Jackie!"
Jackie sighed again. "Alright, Jade, you can come alongbut you have to stay with me!"
"Yo what's going on?" Strikemaster Ice asked Tag as he was frantically gathering supplies for the trip. He stopped what he was doing for a moment to answer their question. "Lydia and her nieces have been kidnapped. We have an idea who the suspect is and are heading out to Taiwan ASAP." The Ice Crew's eyes widened in shock.
"Kid...kidnapped?" MC Cobra stuttered. Charmaine! He hoped so much she would be okay.
"Yo let us come too!" Ice stated.
Tag raised his eyebrows. "You three? Well uh, I don't know..."
DJ Fist then interrupted him. "Please", he begged, "This is personal."
Tag nodded in understanding, knowing that the three had feelings for Kaysha, Charmaine, and Cassie.
"Alright, you can come! We must move quickly!" "Hmm, well this could be the chance for these three to prove themselves" Tag thought as the four were running to the main Section 13 jet.
When everyone arrived, Hak Foo climbed into the pilot's cockpit since he was the most advanced flyer of the bunch. He tried starting it but nothing happened. "The engine won't start!" he exclaimed.
"Oh lovely!" Tag exclaimed in stress, "This is the fastest jet we have and kinda need it to work!"
"Yo maybe we can help" Cobra stepped in, "Me and Fist are good with engines."
Lydia, Kaysha, Charmaine, and Cassie were finally waking up after being knocked out the morning before. Charmaine was the first to regain consciousness. "Whoa...where...where am I? Why am I all tied up?" she cried as she observed her hands and feet being bound.
"Aunt Lydia, where are we?" Cassie exclaimed.
"I...I don't know" Lydia answered once she came to, "It looks like a jail cell. But where... how...how did we get here?"
"We brought you here!" The four shrieked as the heard the voice of a wealthy middle-aged Taiwanese man with long black hair with white highlights and a hand made of jade. Bartholomew Chang. He approached with a gorgeous blonde woman with sharp green eyes, bright red lips, a short black dress, and red high heels. "Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Bartholomew Chang and this is my assistant, Sheila McStone." Lydia's eyes widened immediately with surprise and then anger.
"Sheila? Oh not you!" she exclaimed.
"Who the hizzle is that?" Cassie asked, confused.
"Tag's obnoxious drama queen brat of a cousin" Lydia replied rudely, "I've haven't seen her since I was in high school! What's going on here, Sheila?"
"I still wish to get revenge for what you did to me, Lydia! I haven't forgotten your man-stealing ways!" Sheila sneered.
Lydia's eyes widened before she rolled them in disgust. "You gotta be kidding. Sheila it's been more than 20 years since me and Larry dated! You're seriously still holding a grudge against me for that?"
Charmaine tilted her head in confusion. "Liddy what the heck are you talking about?"
Lydia sighed. "I don't know if I told you girls this, but "Uncle" Larry was my first boyfriend. We were both 17 when we started dating. Basically me, him, and Sheila all went to the same high school. Me and Larry were both close friends during that time and Larry was the most popular guy in school. Sheila had her eyes on him and tried to get his attention. She asked him out to the school homecoming dance but he said no because he was already planning to go out with me. Even though he was crowned homecoming king and she queen, he wouldn't dance with her but instead me since he liked me so much. And after the dance we had our first kiss and he asked me to be his girlfriend. But come on, Sheila, you're still mad about that?"
"Yes!" Sheila exclaimed angrily, "Because not only was I totally humiliated when Larry dissed me but you know I liked him but you stole him away from me!"
Lydia got angry. "Excuse me! I didn't stealhim away from you, and so what that he chose me, it was obvious that he liked me and not you! Why does it even matter anymore, that was a long time ago! Me and Larry are just friends now and I have a new boyfriend in my life! Don't be so dramatic!"
Sheila's face crumpled with more anger. "Soooo... nice rivalry-from-the-past story and all but what exactly are we doing here?" Cassie asked impatiently.
Chang grinned evilly. "We're using you four as a ransom to acquire something very precious!"
"Like what?" Charmaine asked.
Sheila smirked. "Well I intend to make Lydia's life miserable to get back at her. However, criminal masterminds don't reveal their secrets" she stated as she and Chang laughed and walked off.
"Tch, of course they don't" Cassie mocked.
Jackie Chan and company had just arrived at Chang's headquarters deep off the coast of Taiwan and were trying to enter the mansion without being noticed.
"We're gonna have to go in through the roof" Jackie exclaimed after observing the exterior, "All the main entrances are tightly secured."
"Good thing I brought a few ropes and hooks along!" Tag replied as he got them out of his backpack. He handed them to the most accurate throwers and a few minutes later, were all on the roof. Tag spotted a window on the roof that would open to the inside. When he noticed that nothing seemed to secure it, he nervously opened it, hoping no alarms would go off. It opened without a sound! "Huh well that was easy" Tag thought to himself. He dropped a rope and slid down quickly but quietly. The others followed. "Now where could Chang keep Lydia and her nieces in this huge place?" Tag asked out loud.
"Chang's headquarters are huge" Viper replied, "We're gonna have to check as many rooms as possible. We should stick together because it's a maze around here."
Everyone ran around as quietly as possible, looking in every room aong the way to see if their missing friends were there. Eventually, they stumbled into a dimly lit room. "Well I don't see anything here!" Tag exclaimed. As the group was about to leave, Jade cried out "Lydia!" Everyone turned around to notice that at the back of the room, there was a jail cell with the four victims inside.
"Liddy! Girls!" Tag shouted as they all ran towards the cell at the same time.
"Don't worry, Charmaine, we're gonna bust you out of here!" Cobra called out confidently.
As they were looking for the keys, they heard a voice. "Congratulations, J-Team, you did exactly what I was hoping you would do."
The group turned around to see Bartholomew Chang walk in with Sheila McStone.
"Chang!" Jackie yelled as he got into fighting position.
"Sheila?" Tag asked in disbelief. Sheila smiled and looked at him evilly. "Hello, cousin. It's been a long time."
"So it wasyou who lured us here!" Viper exclaimed to Chang. "Let Lydia and her nieces go!"
Chang grinned evilly. "Why don't you hear first what offer I have for a certain group of ex-criminals?"
"Offer?" Viper asked in confusion.
Chang nodded and pointed out Hak Foo, Valmont, and the Ice Crew. "Since you all aren't familiar with me, I'm Bartholomew Chang. I once had a mass amount of wealth in jade, that is until Jackie Chan and his team defeated me twice. I want to re-build my criminal empire and since you all were some of the most powerful villains in the past, I figured you would be the perfect candidates to become my allies."
"Yo how do you know who we are?" Strikemaster Ice asked in confusion.
"Miss Sheila here has friends who are Section 13 agents in disguise and have been collecting information about Chan's past enemies and who would be the most useful in becoming my partners in crime. When she found out that her cousin Taggart McStone and her past enemy Lydia McPeek were both there as well, she gave me the idea to use her as a ransom so that I could speak with you. Nice to know that it worked and that we got a bonus by kidnapping her nieces!"
"So that's the reason why they kidnapped us? Well that's the dumbest ransom I've ever heard of!" Cassie whispered in disgust.
"You guys have some sick minds!" Tag growled in disgust.
"Appreciate the compliment, Agent Tag" Chang said sarcastically. "Now anyways," referring to Hak Foo, Valmont, and the Ice Crew, "I found out from the agents that you are very skillful and crafty fighters. Valmont, I believe I have heard of you before because the Dark Hand was the strongest crime syndicate in the world, until Lord Shendu ruined you, that is. And I heard you three had served Drago, the son of Shendu" he said, pointing to the Ice Crew.
"Who's these Shendu and Drago people?" Charmaine whispered to Cassie and Kaysha. Her sisters shrugged in response.
"You are correct. But what exactly do you want from us?" Valmont asked suspiciously.
Chang grinned. "I wish for you to ally yourselves with me, and together we can build a crime syndicate more powerful than the world has ever seen. Your reward will be great." he added as Sheila opened a large box filled with gold and rare jewels.
Valmont and the Ice Crew stared hungrily at the riches, becoming attracted to how much money was in there.
Hak Foo stepped back and frowned. "Your offer is undesirable to me", he declared, "I have become victim to the dark side too many times in the past and don't want to go back down that way."
Chang rolled his eyes. "Good guys" he muttered under his breath. "Very well then, what about you four?" he asked Valmont and the Ice Crew.
Valmont continued to stare at the treasure. "My, I sure do miss having the power that I did when leading the Dark Hand. It would be jolly good to be on top again" his dark side said. "I will join you" Valmont said out loud.
Lydia's heart sunk in despair. She couldn't believe what she just heard. How could her boyfriend turn back to evil? "Valmont...babe...no..." she whispered, too afraid to speak out loud.
"Very good" Chang exclaimed with satisfaction. "Now, what about you three? I know there's a part of you that loved being evil", speaking to the Ice Crew.
Strikemaster Ice turned to his crew. "Yo did you see how much cash they got to offer us? Yo we could ditch probation and have some real fun!"
"Sounds like a deal to me, yo!" Cobra exclaimed.
DJ Fist crossed his arms and frowned. "Count me out" he said firmly.
Ice and Cobra's eyes widened in surprise. "What? Yo what do you mean you ain't gonna join us?" Ice asked in shock.
"Bro, we've done everything together! We're the ultimate trio, yo! You can't bail us!" Cobra exclaimed.
DJ frowned more. "What are you guys thinking? Yeah it's a ton of money but watch, we join Chang and Chan kicks our butts again and we end up back in prison and will probably be there forever. It happened a ton of times before so what makes you think it won't happen again? Evil seriously don't pay no more. Besides, what about them?" he added, pointing to Charmaine and Cassie.
Ice and Cobra turned around and sighed heavily, looking at the frightened faces of their crushes. "I'm really crazy about Kaysha and I'm not gonna risk losing her. You guys do what you want, but I'm not in this." DJ declared.
MC Cobra looked at Charmaine again and sighed. He couldn't betray her or his best friend DJ! He and DJ Fist did more together than Ice ever did with them. They were like brothers, and Cobra couldn't leave him. And Charmaine! She was such an incredible person that made Cobra's heart race. She was so nice to him! And evil really didn't pay anymore, he was defeated too many times in the past by Chan and didn't want to deal with that again. After a minute of contemplating, Cobra stood by DJ and faced Ice.
"Yo I changed my mind, I'm with DJ on this one. You're on your own, bro."
Strikemaster Ice couldn't believe what he was hearing. Both of them were gonna ditch him? Ice frowned angrily. "A'ight then, I will go solo on this one!" He then turned towards an impatient Chang. "Yo my posse is outta this one but I ain't. What do you want me and the V-Man to do first?"
Chang and Sheila looked at each other and grinned. "You can start by annihilating the McPeeks" Sheila said darkly.