"What do you have to gain from the witch learning about Jack?"

"Nothing I plan on telling you, Hannibal," Chase said as he turned his crystal ball off. "Now, I believe I told you to leave."

"And I did," the bean sneered, hopping down the stairs. "You never said not to come back."

Chase rolled his eyes and started for his throne.

"What do you gain from being here," he asked.

"Well for starters, I get the joy of seeing my old friend, Chase Young," Hannibal jeered, following him. "And I also get to see how he plans on handling his wife."

"Who, Wuya?" Chase laughed. "I wouldn't marry her if she were the last woman on Earth."

"Well that's very rude of you!"

Chase swiveled around at the sound of Wuya's voice. She scowled at him indignantly.

"After all I've done for you, that's how you speak of me?" she asked.

Chase blinked at her, then growled.

"Your tricks won't fool me, Bean," he said.

"Doesn't matter much, you've already done failed my test, pretty boy," Hannibal said.

He'd yet to change from Wuya's form.

"And what test is that?"

"Doesn't matter much, you've already done failed it," Bean said.

"Really? How so?"

Now if I told you that it'd ruin all the fun, old friend. You'll have to wait just like all the rest."

With that Hannibal took his leave. Chase watched him go with a glare, regretting tossing him into the Ying-Yang world instead of destroying him. He turned back to his crystal ball and switched it on; Wuya and her sister were talking solemnly to each other at a kitchen table, each holding a cup in hand. The almost maternal look Wuya gave the other woman told him that her sibling was younger than she. How he had not known of her sister escaped him. Surely Wuya would have let the information slip at some point.

He stared at the younger woman for a long while; something inside him was screaming that he knew her, but that was improbable.

Wait... he suddenly thought, squinting at the projection. Perhaps...No...

His eyes widened at the sudden thought.

...Lula? But...it can't be...

Wuya spoke something softly to her, and for a moment the woman smiled. Chase gasped.

But...how...?

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

"The game is Sabotage. First one to the Wu wins."

"This just went from really bad to we'll-never-live-this-down bad," Stryker groaned as Kimiko and Entropy went over the formalities of the Showdown.

"Maybe she'll do better this time," Jack said, feeling pretty good about their chances.

"I wager my Third Arm Sash against your Tangled Web Comb," Entropy was saying.

"That's a pretty good wager," Clay muttered to Rai, who nodded with slight concern.

No one noticed him shoot a glance at one of the other boys.

"Let's go: Xiaolin Showdown!"

Some of the ground instantly cracked and plummeted into what looked to be an underground waterway. The boys jolted as the rock they stood on shot up into the air and the girls were put into separate ramps below them. Stryker groaned and leaned over, trying to keep his stomach from lurching.

"Yeah...you don't get used to that," Jack told him.

"Figures..." Stryker complained.

"On the bright side, the Showdowns always seem to have a pattern," Jack continued. "Seems every time the monks win one, we win one, and vice versa."

"That won't happen this time though, Spicer," Rai snarled.

"Yeah? Name one time that'll prove me wrong."

Raimundo thought hard; the others waited for his response.

Kimiko!" he shouted down to his girlfriend. "Whatever you do, win!"

"That'll solve it," Stryker retorted.

"Gong yi tan pai!" the girls shouted at each other.

Kimiko dashed away as quick as she could. Entropy raised her arm and shot some of her cannon balls at her before following after.

"Hey! She can't do that!" Raimundo cried for the monks.

"She can't do that!" Stryker and Jack mocked, making faces at them.

Kimiko flipped away from the bombs.

"Tangled Web Comb!" she shouted.

The teeth of the little Wu stretched to hairy tendrils that zipped over and latched onto Entropy's cannons, tying her hands together. She struggled for a moment, then growled at the other girl.

"Third Arm Sash!" she cried.

The belt around her waist flew out and the claw shredded the vines.

"Pick up the pace, Enny!" Stryker commanded.

"No duh, Snakey!" Entropy roared as she dashed after Kimiko.

"Snakey?" Omi questioned as the other monks gave Stryker an odd look.

Stryker clenched his fists and grit his teeth as Jack laughed nervously. The girls kept going at it, Kimiko shooting the Tangled Web Comb to slow Entropy down and Entropy using the Third Arm Sash to keep the Wu at bay. The way things were going, both girls had stopped very near the Ninja Obi.

"Tangled Web Comb-"

"Third Arm Sash!"

Kimiko gasped as the two Wu went past each other and wrapped around the opposite girl. Entropy took the opening and wrenched backwards as hard as she could, forcing Kimiko to stumble to the edge of her ramp. Kimiko did everything she could to wrench back, but Enny's desperation allowed her to keep the other girl where she was. Kimiko's heart sank when the other girl pointed her cannon at her.

"Bye byyyyyeeee!"

Kimiko feebly struggled against the Sash as she fired; the bomb struck the platform and collapsed from under her. She screamed as she plummeted to the waves below. Entropy skipped over to the Wu as Rai, Clay, and Omi went to the edge and tried to see Kimiko. She had managed to grab a ledge and was attempting to pull herself up.

"Hey, Kimi!"

Kimiko dejectedly looked up at Entropy as she stood in front of the Ninja Obi and grinned at her.

"Nice try!"

Entropy wrapped her arms around the Wu and raised it up above her head in victory. Stryker and Jack cheered for her as the other boys groaned in defeat.

The scene flickered and then everything returned to normal. Entropy dashed over and jumped into Stryker and Jack's arms, over the moon by her win. The boy monks went over to Kimiko, who was sitting on her knees with her eyes squeezed shut.

"Sorry, guys," she said as Raimundo helped her up.

"Hey, we lose all the time," Rai told her. "We'll get 'me next time."

She did her best to smile at him as Omi and Clay patted her shoulders. Raimundo waited until they started talking to each other, then looked over at their cheering rivals. Dojo saw him give one of them a strange look and climbed to his shoulder.

"I take it you know then?" he whispered.

"Yeah, Dashi told me," Rai answered. "It's a little weird, isn't it?"

"The strangest things always seem to be the most powerful."

Before the otheas became suspicious Dojo changed into his large form and let the monks climb onto his back. Jack, Stryker, and Entropy stopped their celebration to watch them go.

"Well that's weird," Stryker said. "Usually they stay to throw insults."

"I feel offended!" Jack declared. "They didn't even stay long enough for me to tell Raimundo that only snails have that much ooze in their hair!"

Stryker and Entropy cracked up as they followed him to the jet.

"I can't believe i won!" Entropy said. "I thought it'd take forever for me to win a Showdown thingy!"

"Yeah, you did great!"

"Uh, Enny?" Stryker started, grabbing his cousin's arm before she went into the jet.

Jack slid into the driver's seat and shut the door, figuring this was a family moment now.

"What's up?" Enny asked.

Stryker bit his lip, then sighed and gave her a smile.

"Great job out there," he said. "You really proved me wrong. I'm...I'm sorry I didn't trust you earlier."

Her eyes widened in shock. Stryker would never have apologized to her five years ago.

"Jackie's really turning you soft, Snakey!" she laughed, giving him a playful punch on the arm. "Apologizing to a pyromaniac!He's flipped you upside down!"

Stryker chuckled lightly.

"Guess that's what happens when you get friends."