Raimundo POV
After I followed her back to the throne room, she announced, "May I present your fallen comrades: the Xiaolin Warriors." Then I saw four of Wuya's stone minions come in with my old friends and Jack… Except Omi wasn't with them.
"Delicious. My domination of the world is now complete." Wuya smiled in triumph.
"Uh Wuya, you might wanna do a head count. You're short one Omi." I pointed out.
"Omi!?" Wuya gasped, recounting the prisoners by transporting herself next to the stone warriors to see for herself.
"Where's Omi?" She threatened, raising her fist at my captured friends.
As she glared, Dojo was about to confess, but Clay interrupted, "Frankly it's none of your business Ma'am."
"Oh? Well as they say… I have ways of making you talk." She grinned, lighting her hand up with green flames.
"He's trapped in the past!" Jack yelled.
"What?" I asked, stepping down the stairs to join them.
"Yeah! He traveled back in time to ask some guy named Dashi for help!" He confessed, continuing on innocently.
"Omi is in the past?" Wuya asked astonished.
"Yes. And now he's trapped there." Kimiko replied glaring.
"And it was me who sent him back Wuya! I was really on your side all the way. Stupid Omi walked right into our trap! Woo hoo! You can let me go now." Jack explained sucking up to his captor.
"Forget it Jack. I'm not buying it." Wuya said unconvinced.
"Really? Even if I whimper?" Jack said sadly, whining and started whimpering.
I shook my head in sadness, not wanting to believe what they said. "Omi is really trapped in the past?"
Kimiko turned her head an venomously replied, "We'll never see him again… Thanks to you!"
Dojo pointed at me and added, "And I hope you feel guilty about it!"
Clay then said, "Yeah, nice going you two-faced fink."
"I… I never wanted anything to happen to you guys… I… I just wanted my due…" I tried to explain weakly, feeling extremely guilty for what happened to Omi.
"And now you've got it Raimundo!" Wuya said, putting her hand on my shoulder. "To the dungeon with them!" She concluded gesturing away.
"Wait… Wait!" I called, trying to save them. "Wuya… What if these guys… You know, swear loyalty to you? Maybe they could sorta… Live in the palace with me?" I explained, giving her two thumbs up in hope.
"If they swear their loyalty." She complied, taking it as their final surrender and her victory.
"YES!" I thought, taking this one chance to save my friends. We could still have fun together like in the old days, and now we could all have amazing things! This was my chance to fix something. "C'mon guys! You won't believe the stuff she's got. Video games… Race cars… Speed boats..!" I expressed to them.
"Sold! You can let me go now." Jack replied quickly.
"The offer's not for you Jack." Wuya said dully crossing her arms.
"Boy, you really hold a grudge." He said annoyed and disappointed pointing over at her.
"Guys, Wuya rules the whole world. So c'mon! Join the winning team already! What do you say?" I urged. "What do we say?" Kimiko started looking innocent and talking sweetly, "How about… DREAM ON!" She screamed revealing her heavy sarcasm.
"I'd sooner kiss the backside of a mule." Clay replied as I turned to him.
"Forget it!" Dojo added.
"So be it Xiaolin Warriors. You can spend the rest of eternity in the dungeon." Wuya said, and held out her hand to tell the guards to take them away.
I just stood there feeling dejected as they stone minions spit out my friends and Jack into the massive green portal in the ground.
"Hehehe now that was fun." Wuya snickered, watching them fall screaming. Then she put her arm around me and said, "So, how do you play this 'air hockey?'"
Later that day I tried to figure out what I was going to do. I tried to do what Cyra said and make thing right… But see how that had worked out? My friends only rejected me! As I sat making a card house, I tried to think of what I was going to do…
Then suddenly the card house burst into flames, set on fire by something and I yelped, "Whoa!" Then I turned to see where the disturbance had come from and I saw Clay and Kimiko riding Dojo to make their getaway.
"What's the matter Rai? You look pretty bored for a guy who rules the world." Kimiko said sarcastically, glaring at me.
"What are you doing here? Did you decide to join me?" I asked hopefully.
"Nope. Still rather kiss the backside of a mule." Clay answered coldly.
"We escaped Raimundo, so be cool and let us go." Kimiko went on.
"Or be a loser and come after us." Dojo finished.
I angrily looked up at them and stubbornly responded, "Better run; cause I'm coming after you." And I pulled up my hood and prepared to recapture them.
"Have it your way." Kimiko said coldly, and they flew off on Dojo's back. I knew I couldn't let them get away because this was the side I was on, and they were the ones making the wrong choice here. If they were smart they would have just joined us…
"Guards!" I yelled, and rock warriors assembled around me. "C'mon, we got some former friends to catch."
When we caught up to them, we immediately started fighting; Wuya's rock minions verse Kimiko and Clay with their Shen Gong Wu. As I watched them fight I wondered why they just didn't run away… They had no reason to just fight like this knowing they couldn't win against the never-ending assault.
"What's wrong with you guys? Why don't you just fly away?" I questioned, but they just ignored me.
"It's like you're not even trying to get away!" I pointed out. Then I had a brief epiphany and realized what they were doing. "Because you're not! Quick, back to the palace!" I yelled at the guards, and turned back to warn Wuya.
When I got back, I yelled into the throne room, "Wuya! The prisoners have escaped! I think they set a…." I started, but stopped in my tracks at the sight of the room.
"Not to worry Raimundo, they are no threat to me." She said gesturing to Omi and Jack trapped by rings of green energy.
"Raimundo! Help us! Please!" Omi begged upside down.
"Well well, the gang's all here." She laughed as the stone warriors brought in the captured Dojo, Kimiko, and Clay.
"I'm guessing the box didn't work." Clay sad sadly.
"Jack Spicer couldn't open it!" Omi said sarcastically mocking the villain.
"It's not like you did any better chrome dome." Jack rebutted bitterly.
Just as Omi started, Wuya took the puzzle box from his hands and said, "You got a magic puzzle box from Dashi? Hm, impressive effort I must say. Yet how like Dashi to give you the tool but without the knowledge of how to use it." As she said this, she dropped the box into my hands. "He always was a fool. A smart guesser, but a fool." She snickered, imprisoning Jack and Omi into a stone minion.
"Now to unfinished business… Crush them!" She commanded clenching her fists in glee.
"Not so fast Wuya!" Dojo interrupted, pointing at the witch. "Once again you've forgotten about my ability to change size!" And he attempted to grow larger, but was unable to break out from within the belly of the stone creature.
"Like I said, crush them." She sneered. Then the cages my friends were in began to get smaller and smaller, squeezing them to death.
"Wuya wait! You can't squish them like that!" I interjected.
"Oh Raimundo… You are quite right! No need to make a mess of my throne room." She laughed crossing her arms. "Take them to the dungeon, and then crush them." She finished.
I gawked horrified at what was about to happen to them. I had never wanted any of them to get hurt! What had I done…
"Raimundo partner please!" Clay begged.
"Rai, stop her! You're good, I know it!" Kimiko yelled.
"Master Fung choose you for a reason! You don't belong on the Heylin side!" Omi added, as all of them were being dragged out of the room.
"Raimundo has proven his loyalty time and again." Wuya pointed out, touching my shoulders from behind. "And that's because I can give him anything he wants."
"Anything?" I asked.
"Toys… Money… Canada… Name it and it's yours!" She replied as I looked back at her.
Then I realized that this was the chance Cyra had told me about. I knew this had gone too far, and now was my time to set things right and free the world from evil… and my friends that I had wrongly betrayed.
"I want… my friends." I responded, and opened the puzzle box in my hands revealing a golden light surging out of it.
Wuya backed up in horror asking, "What are you doing?"
Then Grand Master Dashi's spirit came out from the box and faced Wuya.
"Dashi..!" Wuya said fearfully.
"Whoa Wuya… The years have not been kind." He joked and then flew towards her passing through her body as she screamed, reverting her back into her ghost form. Then she was sucked into the open box in my hands yelling "Noooo!"
Dashi approached me and said, "Well done Dragon of the Wind." And gave me a wink and a thumbs up before disappearing.
Then the rock warriors crumbled into dust releasing everyone, and the palace began falling apart. We rushed out of the place flown out by Dojo and watched it fall to the ground, and everything else came back to life.
"Yeah!" Omi said happily and we touched knuckles in triumph. Kimiko hugged me and gave me a kiss on the cheek, making me blush and smile bashfully. Clay and I high fived as he yelled, "Alright!" with all of us looking back at the world, now saved from evil. Even Jack gave us a thumbs up from where he held on for dear life on Dojo's tail.
I knew that I had to take responsibility for my mistake, and I was prepared to do whatever I could to fix this, but for now I was just happy to have my friends back, and the world safe again.