I'm Ky, a Kairu Champion. I race around the world to find a powerful energy known as Kairu. Not long ago, Lokar unleashed a power called Shadow Kairu. After going on a journey, I found Prism Kairu, a force I thought had the power to change Shadow Kairu back into normal Kairu. After using it, instead of turning all the Shadow Kairu back, it only worked on Kairu that had already been found. The rest of it transformed into something not Shadow or Pure Kairu. This new Gray Kairu changes from good to bad depending on who has it. Lokar also has a new team of E-Teens that have a type of move called a Violet Move, which increases their Kairu strength during a battle. With the odds stacked against us, we have to press on to fight Lokar and save the world from him and his Dark Teams. My quest is to save the world from Lokar by conquering all types of Kairu, and to one day ascend to the level of
REDAKAI!
Ky and Maya stood in front of Boomer in shock. Ky shook his head in confusion.
"Boomer, that can't have been Sara's dad. You said he was a soldier, not a Kairu Warrior. And besides, even if he was a Kairu Warrior, why would he lie about this kind of stuff to her? He must've realized at some point that you were a Kairu Warrior, and that his mom's ring was full of Kairu." Boomer shook his head.
"Not if it was filled with Shadow Kairu. He probably wouldn't recognize it, and ignored it." Maya shook her head.
"That can't be it. If that were the case, then it would've turned into Gray Kairu, and when we collected it, it was Pure Kairu, so that still doesn't make any sense." Boomer nodded.
"Okay, but what if he was ignoring, hoping that it wasn't Kairu? He's retired after all." He looked towards Master Boaddai. "Well Master B, what do you think?" He sighed.
"I think I should not be discussing this. When a Kairu Warrior retires before reaching the status of Redakai, they are to be left in peace, whatever the reason, and everyone he was associated with mustrespect that." Ky smirked.
"Yeah, but we didn't know him until a little while ago, so that rule doesn't apply to us. And besides, I'll just ask my dad. They're around the same age, so they probably knew each other." He tried to cross his arms, but it failed since one arm was bound up, so he just left that arm hanging. Master Boaddai shook his head.
"As a Redakai, he is bound by the same rules as I am, and therefore, he wouldn't be allowed to talk about it either. And, he could have possibly associated with him if they are around the same age." Boomer thought about it, then smiled as the thought hit him.
"I've got it! I'll just call Mrs. C! If he's not home yet, then that'll at least give us a clue!" Master Boaddai sighed.
"That I can't stop you from doing. But, if he truly is a retired Kairu Warrior, then he'll carefully cover his tracks." Boomer pulled out a yellow cell phone. After dialing a number, he got to Mrs. C.
"Hello?" She sounded worried. Boomer smiled.
"Hey Mrs. C! How's everything?! Is Mr. C home?" He couldn't tell, but she was shaking her head over the phone.
"No, he's out looking for Sara and Jeremy! They've gone missing!" Boomer tried to mock surprise, having already guessed that Lokar had Jeremy.
"What?! Sara and Jeremy are missing?!" She nodded.
"And I got calls from Paul and Lexi's parents asking if I knew anything about their disappearances! They're missing too!" This time, Boomer didn't have to fake the surprise.
"What?! Paul and Lexi?!" Master Boaddai looked confused.
"Who are these Paul and Lexi people that he's talking about?" Ky sighed.
"They're friends of Boomers from the Midwest." Boomer shushed them.
"I'm trying to talk about missing people here!" He went back to the phone. "So, Sara, Jeremy, Paul, and Lexi are all missing?" Mrs. C nodded over the phone.
"Yes! When Sara and Jeremy weren't in their beds, I immediately wanted to call the police, but John took the phone away before I could! He mentioned something about someone I can't remember! Loki? Locust? Low calorie?"
"Lokar?" He could hear the snap over the phone.
"Yes! That's it! Lokar! When I asked him who Lokar was, he wouldn't explain, then said to leave finding them to him! He said the police would be useless! Then, when Paul and Lexi's parents called me about them being missing, John said to have me tell them not to call the police either! He said that doing so would only put them in a lot of danger!" Her voice went from worried to very angry. "If I ever meet this Lokar guy that took my babies from me, I'm gonna teach him a lesson he'll never forget!" Boomer had a sweat drop on his face. "Anyway, why were you calling for John anyway?" He smiled a little.
"Oh, no reason! I was just uh, uh-" She sounded very excited as she cut Boomer off.
"Oh, I know! You were finally gonna ask him permission to date Sara! I always knew you'd be her first boyfriend!" His face went totally red.
"Mrs. C, Sara and I would never date. Wait, she hasn't had a boyfriend yet?" Ky took the phone away from Boomer.
"Sorry Mrs. C, but Boomer has important farm work to do. He'll have to call you back later. Good bye!" He heard her sigh.
"Well that's too bad. Bye then!" She hung up. Ky gave Boomer a look as he handed him back his phone.
"Seriously? You had to ask if she hasn't had a boyfriend yet?" Boomer blushed and shrugged. Maya rolled her eyes.
"So, other than finding out your two friends are missing, what'd you learn?"
"Well, Mrs. C said that Mr. C insisted on finding Sara, Jeremy, Paul, and Lexi on his own, without police help. He also mentioned Lokar's name! He's definitely Jace!" Master Boaddai sighed.
"It looks like I can't hide it. I thought he would've covered his tracks better." He stood there silently. Boomer looked confused.
"What is he doing?" Maya shrugged.
"I don't know, but it's kind of creepy how he's just standing there silently." Ky looked carefully.
"Maybe he's talking to Sara's dad." Master Boaddai snapped out of it.
"I'm sorry, I guess you've never seen me using my Astral Projection from this end, have you?" They all shook their heads. "Well, now you know what it looks like. John is on his way back right now."
"I'm already here. I never really left." They all turned around and saw him. Boomer was very confused.
"But how did, I mean that was, seriously!" John laughed.
"I was underneath the X-Scaper dock, climbing down, but when Master Boaddai told me you guys had already figured it out, I thought I should just use a nice, silent Anti-Grav attack and get back up here quickly." He took off his hood, revealing his crew cut blond hair and his green eyes. "I suppose I owe you all and explanation." Boomer nodded.
"Yeah, like why didn't you ever tell me that you were a Kairu Warrior? Why didn't you ever tell Sara, or Jeremy, or even your wife?!" Ky pushed Boomer aside, trying to keep him from going crazy.
"And why did you help my team while I had an injury?" Maya nodded.
"And why did you hide your identity from us?" He sighed.
"Why don't we go inside? It's a very long story."
"When I was your guys' age, I was a Kairu Warrior, along side with two other great Warriors, one Connor Stax, and one Miss Rachel Fields. And before you ask, yes Ky, they were your parents."
John, as a teenager, was standing on one foot with his right arm on his left elbow, and the other arm upright next to two others, both wearing the plain brown robes of a Kairu Warrior in training and in the same position. One was a boy who looked almost exactly like Ky, the other was a girl who had brown hair and violet eyes. They smiled at each other as they all used their Inner Kairu to lift a huge boulder.
"At this point, Lokar had already turned to the side of evil. He had forced his daughter, Laenna, Maya's mother, to be his evil Kairu Warrior. She was the first E-Teen."
John, Connor, and Rachel stood in front of a girl their age with blue hair and brown eyes, wearing a similar outfit to theirs, but with Lokar's symbol on her belt. They were glaring at each other from across a green landscape.
"We fought each other constantly." John, Connor, and Rachel used several Kairu Attacks on Laenna, who easily dodged each one of them. "Lokar want her to take away our Kairu strength, and so he set it up so we'd have to fight each other in various locations. It was battle after battle after battle." They kept clashing and clashing, fighting and fighting.
"I had always wanted to live a life that meant something, and I thought being a Kairu Warrior was it. For the longest time, I did. I thought that fighting against Lokar and protecting the world was what I was meant to do. Master Boaddai had told me that I was extremely talented, and I took that to heart." John looked up and smiled at a much younger master Boaddai who looked very proud of his Warrior.
"But then, one day, that all changed. Lokar sent us to a farm, and all hell broke lose in that battle. A civilian ended up getting involved." Laenna sent an attack at John that missed, heading toward an unsuspecting brunette with hazel eyes. John saw it and rushed to get in the way of that attack and that girl. It hit him square in the chest as he barely beat it to her. "I was out of it for three days. The girl's parents wouldn't let Connor and Rachel take me back to the monastery, because they personally wanted to make sure that I was all right. They had also wanted to hear the story from me, rather than from Connor or Rachel. When I woke up, I saw the most angelic face I had ever seen, full of worry as she held my hand. That girl was named Elizabeth." A young girl, around his age, with brown hair and big hazel eyes full of worry stood over him.
"When I was asked about what had been going on, Connor nearly told them the truth, but I told her we were shooting a student movie, but the effects we used were real because we couldn't afford fake, safe ones, hence why I got in the way of the attack. They didn't seem to buy it, but in time, they forgot about it." John, sitting on a bed, covered Connor's mouth as he smiled sheepishly while Elizabeth, her parents, and a confused Rachel, stood by him.
"I found myself thinking of every excuse I could to go and see her." John looked both ways as he snuck out of a monastery window. "Finally, when I became an adult, I told my team and my teacher that I was going to leave the path of a Kairu Warrior to become a husband, and later on, a father. Master Boaddai told me that if that was my decision, then I wouldn't be able o have any contact with Connor or Rachel again, or with the Redakai. As sad as I was about that, I agreed, though I kept my X-Reader in case of emergencies, which I was allowed to do." John walked away from them, looking a bit depressed as he left. "They seemed to get by just fine without me. They ended up finally admitting their feelings for each other. Apparently, they had kept it to themselves to keep me from feeling awkward. Eventually, they got married, just as I married Elizabeth, and we both ended up having children around the same age." John kissed Elizabeth on their wedding day. Then, she held baby Sara in her arms, wrapped up in a purple baby blanket as John stood over them, smiling.
"It was the happiest time of my life. Then, Sara started getting strong." A baby Sara, giggling as she wore just a yellow t-shirt and a diaper, pointed at a toy while her father was laying down on his stomach, playing with her using a red teddy bear. Suddenly, a yellow bunny started floating and coming over to Sara's open hand while John laid there in amazement at what his daughter had just done."She had used her Inner Kairu to get herself that toy. From that day on, I knew that I would do everything I had to keep her from using her inner Kairu, and to keep her safe, so I got her everything she wanted. From toys to candies, I did it, just to keep her safe." Sara, now three, pointed at a candy bar in the store, and John got it for her. "I knew I was spoiling her, and Elizabeth was very mad at me for doing so, but I couldn't risk putting her on Lokar's radar. So, she became very spoiled, and thought she could get everything she wanted." Sara threw a temper tantrum when she didn't get ice cream from her mother. "But then she met people, people like you Boomer, who showed her how she can't get everything she wants." A younger Boomer, a younger Paul, and a younger Lexi played with Sara in kindergarten. She was crying about not getting a stuffed bear to play with, but Boomer was talking to her, knowing about sharing since he lived on a farm and couldn't get everything he wanted, learning it at a very early age. "She stopped being spoiled, and eventually came to be the girl she is now."
John sat in front of them on a pillow at the indoor part of the monastery while Team Stax sat in front of him. "But honestly Boomer, I would've let Sara stay a brat had I known that you were going to become a Kairu Warrior." Boomer shrugged.
"Now that I've heard the story, I wouldn't blame you. I'd hate to put my kids in danger." Maya leaned over towards Ky to whisper to him.
"I'm not surprised. They're so similar, they're practically the same person!" Ky looked a bit surprised.
"Are they really that similar?" Maya nodded.
"They have the same/very similar Attacks, similar fighting styles, and similar Monsters. Boomer has Froztok, Jace, I mean John, has Frozitone. Boomer has Chemaster, he says he has a Monster called Phymaster! I bet that if we saw it, it'd look a lot like Chemaster, or at least have similar properties to Chemaster! They're even both blondes!" Ky's eyes widened with realization.
"That is pretty weird."
"Uh, guys, I can hear you." They both blushed when they turned towards Boomer, who was staring at them. "I don't know what you're thinking though. Mr. C and I are nothing alike." John nodded.
"The only things that Boomer and I have in common are our hair colors, the contents of our X-Reader's, and the fact that we both care about Sara. But, now's not the time to think about that." He took out his X-Reader. "I asked a man to modify my X-Reader, but I had to erase his memory using a Memory Wipe Attack afterwards. He wanted to take the technology and mass-produce them. It's got cameras in various forms, such as normal, heat, and night vision, working in both picture and video format." He held the screen side facing up. "Now, normally, an X-Reader will only take holographic video of its owner, but that man modified it to take holographic video of whatever I wanted it too. Using that, I went and snooped around Lokar's lair, which looked pretty desolate. I'm assuming something I don't need to know about happened, and it was abandoned as a base. But, not as a prison." A hologram of Jeremy, Paul, and Lexi in a cage surrounded by something made of Kairu and black energy came up from it. Boomer was shocked.
"Those are my friends and Jeremy!" John nodded as the hologram disappeared.
"They were all kidnapped by Lokar, and I'm guessing it was so Sara would do his bidding. She is quite a natural Kairu Warrior, and I'm afraid that she gets that from me." Ky thought about that.
"Do you think that Lokar knew that Sara's your daughter?" John shook his head.
"Sara looks nothing like me, and while she has my Kairu strength, her Inner Kairu itself feels much more like her mother's. The only thing she shares with me is my eye color. It's the same with Jeremy, only he doesn't have my strength, so unless he could see into her DNA as well as mine, I highly doubt he knows anything about it." Maya nodded.
"Do you think that we can Jeremy and the others out of there?" John shook his head. He showed the hologram again, focusing it on the Kairu.
"That entire field surrounding the cage is made of Kairu already connected to another X-Reader. It's designed so that only Lokar can set the people inside free by using his X-Reader. If Kairu still has a connection of any sort to another X-Reader, then only that specific X-Reader can take it. The Redakai set it up that way so that no one would try to steal Kairu directly from another person's X-Reader using their own, which used to be possible." Ky looked at it.
"The prison that Team Imperiaz's parents were trapped in was much simpler. But then we got a 'thank you' message saying that the Prism Kairu had set them free. This time, he's made sure that that won't happen again." John's eyes widened.
"The Prism Kairu? It's real?" Ky smiled and nodded as he took out his X-Reader and spun it around.
"Yep! It's right here, in my X-Reader. It's solid too." Boomer glared at him.
"This is not the time to be talking about how awesome it is that you have the Prism Kairu! What we should be talking about how we're gonna bust them out and save everybody! I hate the thought of her working for that creep just to save our friends and Jeremy." Maya nodded.
"Boomer's right. I'm sorry for ever doubting her, and now's a chance for me to make up for it." Ky nodded.
"You guys are right. This isn't about me, I'm sorry." John smiled as he held up his X-Reader.
"That's alright Ky. Now," his X-Reader showed other scenes that presented a problem, "there are multiple other things in the way, such as high tech lasers, Kairu Ghost Soldiers, and there's always at least one set E-Teens, one team called the Battacor, and one called the Radikor. The only time there isn't a team is when one girl is standing guard, a redhead that gives me the creeps. I believe I met her earlier today, a girl called Mae." Ky looked a bit confused.
"But why would it just be Mae? Why isn't it Mae and Rueth? Something's not right with this picture."
"I must agree, but now is not the time to be concerned with this." They looked pass John.
"Master Boaddai!" He nodded.
"I'm sorry to cut this rescue planning session short, but there is another Kairu deposit that the X-Scaper detected. John, I would like you to go in place of Ky once again." John nodded as he stood up, facing his former mentor.
"No problem Master Boaddai, as long as Ky doesn't mind." Ky smiled as he struggled to stand up.
"I don't have a problem. Besides, I have some Kairu Warriors in training that I left to use their Inner Kairu." He ran off as Maya and Boomer stood up. They looked at each other.
"Well that was weird. He was so upset that he didn't get to go on the last mission, and now he seems kinda pumped not to go." Boomer shrugged.
"We can't really control what goes on with him. Beside, I think it'd be pretty weird to be inside his head. I don't even understand my own head at times!" Maya nodded.
"That's true." She smirked. "You're pretty clueless." Boomer frowned at that.
"Hey!" She turned to John.
"Well, let's go get the Kairu." They both nodded as they headed towards the X-Scaper.
Gia, Apex, and Balistar were struggling to keep hold of the rocks they were levitating. Gia looked really mad as she focused.
"Where's Ky?" Balistar shrugged as best as he could without losing focus.
"I'm not… really sure but… we've been at this for… two… hours!" Apex nodded.
"I'm getting really tired!"
"Drop those rocks!" They all sighed in relief, dropping the rocks as Ky came running towards them. Gia glared at Ky.
"What'd you do that for? Seriously, we were here, levitating rocks for two hours!" Ky smiled sheepishly.
"Sorry. I had something important to do. But, I'll bet that you're hungry after sitting here using all that Inner Kairu. It's around lunchtime, so do you want me to go and make some sandwiches?" Apex nodded eagerly.
"I'm starving!" Balistar nodded.
"That would be appreciated." Gia rolled her eyes.
"Fine, I guess. Thanks." Ky smiled.
"Alright then. Any requests?" Apex nodded.
"I'd like a ham sandwich on rye bread with lettuce, tomato, a little mayo, some mustard, Swiss cheese, and pickles, if that's not too much!" Balistar shrugged.
"I guess I'll take a turkey sandwich, if that's not too much." Gia looked down at the ground in a somewhat defiant way. Balistar elbowed her.
"I'll take a roast beef sandwich, nothing fancy added on, other than maybe some Colby Jack." Ky nodded.
"I think I can remember all of that. If I mess something up, just tell me, and I'll fix it!"
John already had his hood up as Boomer piloted them towards their destination. Maya looked hopefully at him.
"So, um, are there any really good stories to tell? I love hearing about great Kairu Warriors and what happened to them, but since your stories were never written down, or at least altered to not include you, can you please share some of them, since we already know the truth?" He smiled underneath his hood.
"You love a good Kairu story too? Just like Rachel. Well, I don't really have any. Connor was more of a story teller than I ever was." Maya looked a bit disappointed.
"Okay then." Boomer shouted back towards them.
"Heads up guys! We're about to land!" John and Maya nodded as Boomer pulled them in for a landing. They landed at the top of a really rocky cliff. John looked out the window.
"Uh, Boomer, is there enough room to get out, or even take off?" Boomer nodded and smiled as he stood up.
"There's plenty of room! Trust me on that!" They headed out of this ship. Maya glared at him.
"There's barely any room." She was right. The slightest slip of their feet, and they'd be plummeting to the ground. Boomer blushed and shrugged.
"Sorry. Must've looked at the map wrong!" John rolled his eyes.
"Well, look more carefully next time. I'm not really sure how to get out of this." Maya rolled her eyes.
"I'll go out first, then you guys can follow behind me." She carefully stepped out before walking sideways towards a more stable part of the cliff. John followed behind her, then Boomer. They pressed their backs against the X-Scaper so they wouldn't end up falling over. Rueth looked on from another cliff far away and smiled while she was on her stomach, peaking over a rock.
"Looks like it'll take them a while to get the Kairu. They may still have that Jace guy, but I'm sure we'll be able to beat them now. They're got Platinum Monsters, but we've got Violet Moves. And this time, I'll be sure to stop his Kairu Meld Block Attack." She turned towards either side of her to talk to her teammates. "Let's go." Mae nodded and got up, but Sara stayed where she was, staring at whom she thought was called Jace. Rueth looked down at her. "Something wrong? You didn't get hurt in those last few battles, did you?" Sara shook her head as she stood up.
"It's not that. It's just, that Jace guy seems really familiar." Mae smiled in her creepy, little girl way.
"Well, maybe it's because he's a lot like Boomer." She nodded.
"Maybe. They do have almost all the same X-Drives." Rueth nodded.
"But, we can't dwell on that right now! We've gotta go and find the Kairu for Master Lokar." Sara nodded and headed off with Rueth, her mind still lingering on the identity of Jace.
Maya carefully went along the edge of the X-Scaper as she tried not to look down, knowing that would make things worse. She looked past John and at Boomer.
"Are you sure the X-Scaper's not gonna fall from the weight on the cliff?" Boomer smiled.
"Don't worry about it Maya." The cliff has a very slight incline down and out, not down and in, so it's just as stable there as it would be farther in on the cliff." Maya nodded.
"Alright then, but if you're wrong, then Mookee's gonna kill you!" John rolled his eyes underneath his hood.
"You guys are worse than Rachel and me. I remember, she accused me of stealing her all natural shampoo, and I thought she had taken all of my comic books and ripped them up for one of her weird "art projects" but it turned out that a squirrel had gotten into the monastery and had found it because it had some nut ingredients in it, and a bird that was making a nest in my room." Maya sighed in relief as she got to the back of the X-Scaper, where it was safe to walk normally.
"Well, at least we're safe now." John nodded as he got to the back.
"Or at least as safe as anyone can be on a Kairu mission." Boomer joined them.
"Uh, Mr. C, shouldn't you use that whatever it was to disguise your voice?" John wanted to smack himself.
"I can't believe I forgot that! He grabbed a small device and put it in his mouth. "There we go." He voice was disguised now, and unrecognizable. He turned towards Boomer. "Thanks for the reminder, but what made you think of it?" He looked a bit sad.
"If Sara found out her dad has been lying to her all her life, it'd break her heart, even if you explained why. I'd rather not see that happen to one of my best friends. And she'd figure it out easily if she heard your voice." John nodded.
"That's true enough. Come on, let's get the Kairu." Maya and Boomer nodded as they all ran off.
Mae closed her eyes, smiling.
"The Kairu is this way. It's the half dark, half light Kairu." She started talking in a singsong voice. "Half dark, half light, half day, half night. So close, not far, not clean, but not tarred." Rueth smiled.
"Then we'll have to get to it before Team Stax gets here with their little friend." Sara nodded.
"There's something off about that Jace guy anyway, but I can't put my finger on it." Mae laughed.
"It's hard to believe you haven't figured it out yet, but I'm sure you will eventually. In fact, I know you will." Sara looked confused.
"What do you mean?" Mae smiled evilly and creepily, but still like a little girl.
"I can sense his Inner Kairu. I know exactly who he is, but I'm not gonna say just yet. It's too much fun keeping it to myself!" Rueth glared at her teammate.
"Mae, as team leader, I order you to tell me who Jace is." She laughed and then spoke in a singsong voice with her eyes closed.
"Fine, but it'd be better if you let me hold the secret." She opened her eyes and smiled deviously. "Trust me, it'll help us get the Kairu if we wait." Rueth had an expression of a calm anger, more like displeasure.
"I guess I have no choice but to trust you that it'll help us get the Kairu. I'm not the one with Kairu Visions." Mae smiled.
"And that's the way it should be." They kept walking. Sara looked a bit worried.
"And you're sure that it's best for me not to know who Jace is until we get the Kairu?" Mae smiled.
"Yes, I'm sure of it. But I wouldn't get too used to calling him Jace. I'd start calling him something else. But it'll be a different name for you than for me and Rueth." That just left Sara more confused, and since she realized that Mae was only going to say things that were going to confuse her more, she decided to shut up. Rueth glanced back at Mae.
"So, any luck in sensing where the Kairu is? Obviously, it's there, since you can feel it, but can you feel where?" Mae stopped and closed her eyes.
"Yes, I can." She opened them, a very creepy smile on her face. "It's very, very close." Rueth smiled.
"Excellent! We'll probably get it before that blunette can even sense that it's gone!"
Maya sneezed. She rubbed her nose.
"That sneeze felt really weird." John shrugged.
"Well, maybe it's the Kairu creeping up on you." Maya shook her head.
"That sneeze had nothing to do with Kairu. But it is close." Boomer smiled.
"Awesome! And hopefully, there won't be any E-Teens!" John nodded.
"Especially not Team Femmicore. I'd hate to run into Sara." Boomer nodded.
"I'd hate to fight her, but I'd hate even more to hurt her. Not to mention, I really don't want to run into Mae." He imagined her, creepy smile and creepy laugh. He grabbed his arms and shivered. "That is one seriously creepy girl." Maya nodded.
"Well, I don't sense them, but then again, they seem to be able to suppress their Inner Kairu, at least until we actually see them. Then they let it go, and I can sense them." John's face was worried underneath the cowl of his hood.
"There's only one person who ever mastered the technique of suppressing their Inner Kairu, and that was Lokar himself. Not even his daughter ever mastered it. If he's teaching anyone his tricks, especially three people, then all it can mean is bad news." Maya nodded.
"That's definitely not good news." Boomer nodded.
"I can't think of anything good about there being another person with Lokar's abilities." John nodded.
"You've mentioned this to Master Boaddai, right?" Maya shook her head.
"I really haven't thought that it was that important. Boomer?" He shook his head.
"I didn't make much of it either. I don't think Ky did either." Maya nodded.
"I wonder what he's doing?"
Ky stood in front of a counter with sandwich makings in front of him. He was rubbing his chin.
"I feel like I'm forgetting something." He smiled. "Oh, right, Apex wanted mustard on his!" He went back to the fridge to grab some, but when he grabbed the mustard, there was something moving. "AH!" He dropped the mustard on the floor. "What is that?!"
"SQUEEEELCH!" The thing inside the fridge was a little purple octopus like thing, but with many more tentacles, multiple eyes, lots of pink spots, and covered in some sort of slime.
"What in the name of Kairu is that doing in the fridge?!" Mookee came in.
"Hey Ky, have you seen a little purple thing with pink spots?" Ky glared at him.
"Yes, I have, and why is it in the fridge?!" Mookee smiled as he went to get it. The poor thing seemed terrified.
"It likes cold environments, so it probably went in there on its own." Ky rolled his eyes.
"But why is it here?" Mookee smiled.
"It's to cure Keema's Grundalatitus. See, you boil this alive, and then-" The creature cut him off.
"SQUEEEELCH! SQUEEE! SKREEK!" Ky's eyes widened, realizing that the creature knew what was going to happen to it.
"You're going to boil it alive?! That's just cruel! How could you do that to a poor creature?!" Mookee sighed.
"Ky, it's the only way to cure Grundalatitus. Trust me, when I had it, my mom did the same thing. The juices it releases cures Grundalatitus, but it only works if it's alive when it's boiled. If you do it when it's not, it can actually make Grundalatitus worse! And it can only be administered when the virus is at its peak. It's getting close, and if I wait too long to boil this little guy, then Keema will be stuck with the symptoms of Grundalatitus forever, even after the virus is gone!" Ky looked a bit suspicious of that.
"Is that really the only way to get rid of the, the, whatever it's called?" Mookee nodded.
"Yes, it is. The only other option was to take him to the highest mountain on Nervod, where the same substance was naturally there in a hot spring, but since Nervod is gone, this is the only way." He sighed.
"Fine, but I don't want to see it. Could it wait until I make these sandwiches for Team Tiro?" Mookee looked at the counter.
"No problem Ky! You finish making up those sandwiches, and I'll boil this little guy after."
"SQUEEEEEEE!" Ky nodded.
"But please, get it out of here!" Mookee nodded and left. Ky sighed. "Alright, back to sandwiches. Now, what were the orders?"
Rueth smiled as they reached where the Gray Kairu was. It was a little carved rock, looking like a bird of some sort.
"Awesome! And we beat Boaddai's posse." She turned towards her teammates. "Ready to collect?" Sara nodded as she got out her X-Reader.
"I'm ready." Mae smiled.
"We've got company." Maya, Boomer, and John came up from behind them as Mae turned around. She smirked. "Took you long enough." Maya smirked.
"And yet you didn't take the Kairu when you had the chance. I wonder why." Mae smirked.
"Because, we need to have this Kairu Challenge!" Rueth gave her a shocked and angry look.
"What are you doing?! We can collect the Kairu without a Kairu Challenge!" Mae smirked.
"It will provide plenty of answers, trust me." John frowned underneath his hood.
"We're not gonna let you get that Kairu. Challenge Accepted!" Rueth rolled her eyes.
"I'm not happy about this. Mae, when we get back, you're not allowed to have a single week for a week. And, if you say anything about it, then two weeks." She pulled out her X-Reader. "IVIVETTE! IVY WHIP!" Mae smiled as she got her X-Drives.
"ETERNFLAMENIS! INFERNO CHAIN!" Sara pulled out her X-Reader.
"AVERINA! WING SLASH!" John quickly got out his X-Drives.
"FROZITONE! SNOW BEAM ATTACK!" Maya stacked up.
"INFINITA! FIRE DAGGERS!" Boomer was the last to go.
"FROZTOK! BLIZZARD BLADES!" Rueth smirked.
"I'm not gonna let you win this time Jace! IV-"
"STOP!" Rueth gave Mae a confused and angry look.
"Did you just give me an order?" Mae shook her head.
"No, but I've got one thing to say. Jace is mine. Trust me. We'll win for sure if I fight him. My visions are never wrong." Maya's eyes widened.
"You have Kairu Visions now too?!" Mae nodded and smiled.
"And, unlike you, I can have them at will." She closed her eyes and had a calm smile on her face, speaking in a teasing voice, like a little girl's. "When you get back to your monastery, Ky's gonna hold a plate of very questionable sandwiches. The first thing he's gonna say to you when you get back is 'how was the mission?' and then Master Boaddai is going to ask 'did all go well?' and to which, it won't be a good response." Maya's eyes widened as Mae opened her eyes, smiling in her creepily, little girl way. Maya's eyes widened.
"No way, that can't be right!" Mae smiled.
"Believe what you want, but it's best if we start this challenge now." She turned to John. "Let's see if you can deal with me. I wanna try a new attack I got. It's not fire, but it'll work for my purposes. GALE FORCE FANS!" In her hands were two red fans that she quickly beat, sending a large amount of win at John, he tried to hold onto his hood, but it was slipping.
"No!" Mae smirked.
"Watch carefully Sara." Sara's eyes were glued on John, until finally, the hood came off. Her hand flew up to her mouth in shock.
"Dad?" He was about to put the hood back up, but found it to be of no use. He took the device out of his mouth.
"Yes sweetie, it's me." She looked so hurt.
"But, but why?" He sighed.
"The only reason why I lied to you was to protect you! I never wanted Lokar to find you! I swear I didn't want anything other than to keep you out of harm's way!" her face went from angry to hurt.
"So you lied to me for 16 years?! Is your name really even John Connell?! Are you really even in the army?!" She started shouting at him. "How many lies have you told me over the years?! How many lies have you told Mom?!" He tried to approach his daughter.
"I promise, I only had your best interests in mind." She glared at him.
"I don't want to hear it! I don't want to hear anything from you ever again!" John shook his head.
"This isn't you! I know where Lokar is keeping Jeremy and your friends! We can rescue them together!" She shook her head.
"I don't care anymore! The man I respected the most, the person who was my role model has turned out to be one big, fat, ugly LIE! I HATE you! I hate you so much for lying about all of this!" His eyes were hurt.
"I know you don't mean that." She shook her head.
"No, I DO! And I'm gonna prove it! LION FANGS!" The attack went straight at John, chomping down on him and immobilizing him. She glared at Boomer and Maya. "You guys knew about this too, didn't you?! LION FANGS! LION FANGS!" She sent the same attack twice at both of them, trapping them in the attack before they could dodge it. The sky changed back to normal. Rueth carefully approached her teammate.
"Sara, it's alright! So your dad turns out to be something you didn't expect. But there's no need to leave them like that. Remember the Kairu Code of Honor and Conduct. It's what separates us from the Redakai and their allies." Sara turned to her leader, her eyes filled with pain and anger.
"I'm not actually throwing an attack right now, now am I? Besides, it'll wear off eventually. Now, let's get the Kairu and leave so that way I never have to see my father again!" Rueth, a bit scared of her teammate's mental state, nodded. They took the Kairu and left. Maya struggled against the attack, trying to push it away.
"I… can't… move!" John tried to reach for his X-Reader.
"I think… I might have… an… X-Drive… for this!" He reached it. "FREEZE RAY!" The entire attack turned into ice, which he easily broke out of. He aimed the same attack at Maya and Boomer, who were then able to get out. John looked heartbroken.
"I can't believe she took it like that. She absolutely hates me right now." Boomer came over and put his hand on John's shoulder.
"Don't worry about it. She's just mad. I'm sure that when she calms down, she'll think about what she said, and realize what you did was for the best! Besides, I remember that whenever she got mad at anyone, she couldn't stay mad for more than a couple hours. Seriously, I broke her pot and ruined her painting for art class and made her fail that quarter so she had to go to summer school, and she was only mad for, like, an hour." John shook his head.
"There was something different this time. I'm scared to find out what Lokar's been doing to her to make her act like that this easily."
Lokar smiled as Team Femmicore came before him.
"I see that you've managed to collect the Kairu." Rueth nodded as she held out her X-Reader.
"The Kairu is all yours Master." Mae and Sara both held out their X-Readers as they transferred the Kairu to Lokar. He smiled as it turned into Shadow Kairu by entering his X-Reader.
"Excellent. You're dismissed." They nodded and started leaving. Lokar smiled. "Not you Sara. I want you to stay here." Rueth gave her a sorry look while Mae smiled in her creepy way. They both left as Sara turned back around to face Lokar.
"Yes Master?" His smile only grew.
"I sense a change in your heart, a very drastic change. Why is that?" She sighed.
"I found out that someone has been lying to me for 16 years." His smile didn't disappear, only filled with more evil and twisted pleasure.
"I see. So, how do you feel about this person, and all they're associated with?" Her eyes burned with hatred.
"I want to utterly destroy them all! I don't care how, but I want to see everything that man worked for to burn to the ground!" He laughed.
"I see. Well, I'll grant your wish. You can personally watch me destroy the Redakai, and even play a part in it." She smiled.
"I would take great pleasure in that." He nodded.
"You may be dismissed." She nodded and left. Lokar laughed.
"Fool! The way you carry yourself, I can tell what happened! I never imagined that John's child would be so strong against my influence, but I'll bet that he doesn't even realize that he set off her sudden transformation! Even if he only formed a small crack in her heart, it was enough to set my darkness set in!" He laughed in a maniac like style.
Ky held the plate of sandwiches.
"Well, I hope I got them right." He smelled them. "Maybe I put something wrong on them." Suddenly, the X-Scaper docked. Ky immediately went to the dock while Maya, Boomer, and John got out. "How was the mission?" Maya was shocked.
"What did you just say?" Master Boaddai came up behind him.
"Did all go well?" Maya's face widened.
"No, that can't be right! You guys can't have just said that!" Master Boaddai looked confused.
"Is something wrong?" Maya looked worried.
"Mae has visions, just like me, but she can force hers, and they're correct! Mine can only come on their own, but she can make one happen if she wants it too!" Master Boaddai nodded.
"This news is most disturbing." John shook his head.
"Not as bad as how Sara acted when she found out who I was." Master Boaddai raised an eyebrow.
"And how did that happen?" John sighed.
"Mae made it her goal to let Sara know who I was, and something about it made her snap. I'm not sure what, but she changed instantly." Boomer smiled.
"Like I've been saying, don't worry about it! She'll get over it eventually!"
"AH!" Keema came running out, seeming to be engulfed in flames. "SOMEBODY PUT ME OUT!" Boomer whipped out his X-Reader.
"I've got this! FREEZE-"
"STOP!" Mookee got in the way! "That's just the Grundalatitus! When we get rid of a virus, we sweat certain chemicals that start on fire, and temporarily, we're fireproof! The only thing he's feeling is the heat, but it's helping! The heat sends the immune system into overdrive, and it gets rid of the virus! If you put out the fire now, it'll only hurt him more!" Keema was still screaming.
"PUT ME OUT!" Boomer put his X-Reader away.
"Man, your species is just so weird Mookee!" They all laughed a little at that.
A Kairu Attack should never be used when you're angry, but in Sara's case, it helped her win the Challenge. She quickly use a Red Attack to trap her opponents, and won since they couldn't do anything about it. Attacks like that usually will work, but not when you're angry. Sara's case is a rare exception.
Next Time on Redakai: The Dark Team
With Ky's shoulder healed, Team Stax is back on missions again, and the first runner up is the Battacor! But, with the Battacor having new X-Drives, and with them running into a group of people who regard all bad acts, even lying, as evil, will they be able to survive? Will Team Stax get the Kairu? Will Ky have troubles with his arm, or will it not even be a problem? Find out in the next episode of Redakai: The Dark Team Episode 9 Dark Light!