"I wonder, how is this going to work well?" Omi said as he and his friends watched Stryker and Jack spit insults at each other and shove each other around.

They were trying to figure out who was going to play for the Shen Gong Wu, but the boys wouldn't stop fighting with each other long enough for the monks to get a word in. Zephyr and the girls had given up trying to do any sort of refereeing and just watched with tired eyes.

"May I interject for a moment-" Omi started, coming near the boys.

"No!" they snapped together.

Omi jumped and retreated back to his friends, taking cover behind Raimundo. The monk leader was grinding his teeth in agitation; he wanted to fight for the Wu, was that too much to ask?

"If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't know how to fight anyway!" Stryker yelled.

"Oh, well as long as you get all the credit, right?" Jack shouted back. "Way to go, Strykey, you've stolen the spotlight again!"

"Ooh, that one was harsh," Kimiko groaned as Stryker's eyes flared.

Zephyr leaned forward a little, staring at his friend's eyes. Shouldn't they be gold if he was angry?

"Okay, I've had enough a this," Raimundo growled, storming over to the boys.

Before they could react, he grabbed the back of their heads, pulled them back, and slammed their heads together. Everyone stared at him in shock as the boys stumbled out of his grasp and glared at him.

"What the heck-" Stryker started.

"You two wanna fight so much, fight right!" Raimundo snarled, crossing his arms. "I'm tired a listening to you whine about each other!"

"You're kidding-" Jack scoffed.

They froze when he held out the Wu they'd come for. It was a small blue scope meant to place a target into a deep sleep with a single look. Zephyr gave his older brother a suspicious look.

"What's going on?" he asked skeptically.

"If you two want to fight, then make it a Showdown," Rai said, ignoring him. "Stop wasting everyone's time."

"Yeah, 'cause this isn't suspicious," Entropy mumbled to Cinder.

"Yeah, what's the catch?" Jack asked.

"Chicken," Stryker growled.

The redhead glared at him.

"What did you say?"

"I said you're a chicken," Stryker repeated. "And if you can't comprehend that, it means you're yellow-bellied, a scaredy-cat or..."

He gave the searing boy a smirk as he finished with:

"You're a sissy."

Even the monks felt their stomachs drop at this. Something that Jack hated the most-being called 'sissy'-had just fallen out of his best friend's mouth. Or, as they were perceiving, ex best friend.

"You know what?" Jack roared, snatching the Wu from Raimundo so roughly the other boy flinched away. "Fine! I was looking forward to kicking your scaly tail all the way back to whatever alley you crawled out of!"

Stryker's eyes widened, then narrowed as he snatched the other end of the Wu.

"I'd like to see you fail," he snarled. "I challenge you to a Xiaolin Showdown, sissy!"

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

While the boys and their teammates were distracted, Rai backed up to his team and followed them behind one of the stones. Dojo had changed into his larger form and lowering himself as the monks hopped onboard.

"So there is a catch."

Rai froze and cringed, turning to his see Zephyr standing behind them.

"...Hey little bro," he started nervously. "Uh, so...what's up?"

"Where're you going, and why are we the distraction?" Zephyr snipped, cocking an eyebrow at him.

Rai hesitated, then turned around and looked back at his team. With a sigh he motioned for Zephyr to come closer.

"Okay so we have a bit of a big problem on our hands involving Stryker and Entropy's uncle and a two thousand year old Grand Master," he started when Zephyr leaned closer. "And from what we know...Chase is going to be out for a while, so this is our only chance to get to him. And to do that, we need to know that you guys are away and...safeish...here."

He waited with bated breath as Zephyr processed this. He didn't like lying to his brother, but if Chase was going to come for Stryker, then he'd be okay as long as he didn't get in the way! Beside, with no one to guard Dashi, they'd probably be back in time to kick Chase's butt anyway.

"Okay, fine," Zephyr said with a shrug. "How long do we need to stay?"

"Oh, probably until the Showdown's over," Rai said, relieved that he believed him. "If we get out and the goofs are still battling, we'll just interrupt or something."

"Yeah, okay."

They stood for a moment, then Rai wrapped his brother in a quick hug and boarded Dojo. Zephyr shook a little as he watched them fly off. He still wasn't used to being hugged like that. The sound of yelling and bickering brought his attention back to his friends, and with a sigh he jogged back to them, hoping this wouldn't be as huge as his gut was telling him.