Jack, Kimiko, and Raimundo stared at the young girl clinging to Stryker in bewilderment. She had been hugging him for a full minute, and had yet to do anything else...like explain herself.

"Enny..." Stryker gasped, trying once again to shove the girl away. "You're...I can't breath!"

"Okay!" Entropy said, finally releasing him.

Stryker rubbed his neck and gently pushed Entropy away a little.

"So," Jack started slowly, looking the girl over warily. "Who's this?"

Stryker sighed as Kimiko and Raimundo inched closer.

"Jack, this is my cousin Entropy," he said. "Entropy, this is my friend, Jack Spicer."

The girl's wide, unsettling eyes trained themselves on Jack, who was finding her-among attractive-very strange.

"He's cute," she told Stryker, giving Jack a dazzling smile.

His face became as red as his hair.

"Yeah, sure," Stryker said impatiently, giving Rai and Kimiko a sharp glance. "How about we go home and-"

A familiar shrieking came from Jack's backpack.

"No, not now!" Stryker begged as Jack pulled out their Wu tracker.

"Sorry," Jack said, examining it. "It's really close..."

He froze, then looked behind at where Rai and Kimiko had been.

"They're going after it!" he cried, throwing his pack back over his shoulder and starting to sprint out the door. "C'mon Stryker!"

"Going after what?" Entropy asked as Stryker groaned and started after him. "Wait for me!"

"No, Enny! Stay here!" Stryker commanded as they raced out of the store.

"But I want to help!"

"It's in the mall somewhere!" Jack said, stopping near one of the railings and studying the tracker.

"You can tell that by four arrows?" Stryker asked as he and Entropy stopped next to him and he began to look around where they were.

"Yeah it's a new feature I put in."

"You can track their heat sigs right?"

The boys stopped and stared at Entropy, who in turn was staring at the tracker.

"...Yeah...something like that," Jack said. "How'd you know?"

Entropy giggled.

"I was in a psych ward, sure, but that doesn't mean I'm stupid."

"She needed to be there though," Stryker assured Jack. "How did you get out, anyway?"

"I waited till the guard made a mistake," she said with a shrug. "Wasn't very hard. Guy's about as smart as Jell-O."

Jack saw something red out of the corner of his eye; looking down he saw Omi and Clay meeting up with Raimundo and Kimiko, Dojo not too far behind them. They looked around where they were and then split up, obviously looking for the Wu.

"Well do me a favor and drop the innocent act when you're around other people," Stryker was ordering Entropy. "It's more embarrassing than deceiving-"

"We need to hurry up and find the thing!" Jack interjected, pointing down to the monks. "The hounds are already on the scent, if you know what I mean."

"Okay, where's it pointing?" Stryker asked.

"That-a-way," Jack said, gesturing down.

His two helicopters shot out of the top of his backpack and he jumped over the railing, flitting in the direction he'd pointed.

"Wait, Stryker!" Entropy shouted as Stryker started over the railing himself. "I wanna help, really!"

"Enny, the last time I let you help, you blew up what you were helping with!" Stryker reminded her. "So do me a favor and stay here!"

He jumped down and latched onto one of the hanging signs, sliding down it until he was able to land on the ground safely. Entropy watched him go for a moment, then raced off to follow after.

******JP******

Wuya came down the stairs of the castle to find that Chase was still standing in front of his crystal ball, watching something intensely.

"Anything new show up today?" Wuya asked him.

"My witless niece," he growled. "And a Shen Gong Wu."

Wuya tilted her head and crossed to where he stood, gazing at the projection of a young girl, about fifteen, who shared many of Chase's features.

"She's got your eyes," she jested.

"Silence, wench," Chase ordered, not even glancing at her as a smirk came to his face. "I think I can use this situation to my advantage now. Perhaps even get them both to join me."

"Stryker already told you he doesn't want-"

"Stryker will see reason soon enough. He may be a mere child-"

He paused to wave a hand over the orb. The picture shifted to show Stryker searching one of the mall stores.

"But that boy has far too much power inside him. He will need someone skilled to teach him to control it. And the only one who can do that is me."

With that Chase turned and started towards his throne. Wuya looked after him with a twinge that made her scowl. Perhaps she should have just let the man regain his soul. It would have saved her the trouble of convincing him to give her powers back. Still...there was a small part of her that knew she hadn't given it to him so he could remain evil.

She sighed and ran a hand through her bright red hair, then she turned to the crystal orb. Chase had left it running, still trained on Stryker. A thought popped in her head, and after checking to be sure that Chase was truly gone, she reached out and put a hand on the surface. The picture shifted so quickly she recoiled, and then stared at the projection of Jack. He was looking from his remote tracker to a certain area, and then called something out to someone off screen. She watched him run into the store he'd pointed to, flanked by Stryker, and then a moment later Chase's niece.

"Feeling a little...reminiscent?"

She spun and looked around the room, recognizing the voice immediately.

"Down here, woman!"

"Oh, Hannibal Bean," Wuya said scornfully as she looked down at the tiny, gross-looking bean. "How on earth did you get in here?"

"I slipped through the front door of course, darling," Hannibal told her, jumping up onto the glass orb. "You got your eyes trained pretty hard on that Spica kid. Find somethin' out about him?"

"Nothing new," Wuya told him with a dismissive wave of her hand. She turned away from the bean. "You should leave before Chase-"

"But don't you want me around, Wuya?"

Wuya froze and turned, coming face to face with Jack.

"What...how..." the witch stammered. Her face contorted in rage as she realized the trick. "Don't toy with me, Bean. You'll come to regret it."

Jack's face twisted into a disgustin grin and his eyes turned yellow, much like Hannibal's were.

"What suddenly makes this boy so important to ya, witch?" Hannibal's voice questioned. "Isn't he an idiot?"

"Yes."

"You don't look too sure anymore, Wuya," he said, coming closer to her. Wuya actually took a step back. "Tell me what's changed. We used to have such nice conversation."

"You're a plant, a disgusting one at that. Now get out."

Hannibal chuckled knowingly, refusing to change out of Jack's form. Wuya growled and spun around, storming out of the room.

"Bye, Aunty Wuya!"

Her stomach lurched and she felt her knees give out. Hannibal's malicious laugh rang around her.

"Moby Morpher!" he shouted, using the two plates around his arms to shift back to his bean form. "Boy oh boy, Wuya darling! You're becoming too easy to read!"

He bounced out the window and onto his bird Ying-Ying, who flew the laughing bean away. Wuya stayed where she was, unable to do anything but stare at the stone wall in front of her.