Author's Notes:

I do not own Xiaolin Showdown but I do love the show. There are some characters mentioned in this chapter that I own but I never name them so they're not overly important in my opinion. One character in particular will be named later is a character from a book I have written, though she's much younger in this fanfiction than she is in my book.

This fanfiction is an updated version of a story that I had started writing in 2014 and stopped working on in 2016 due to a lack of time and inspiration. Unfortunately I lost the original files and thus have no other choice but to post an entirely new version of the story that was copied and pasted from the original and then edited. Hopefully this version will be grammatically correct and have less errors overall.

This particular fanfiction does have characters from the new version of the show (Shadow and Ping Pong to be specific) in it. However, for the most part it is based on the original series because that is what I first watched and personally enjoy more.

With that in mind, I should also tell you that though this is based more on the original series, this fanfiction does take place a few years in the future and thus, the characters will be older than they were in the show.

The original version of this fanfiction was inspired by the user CrystallicSky, who has written several Chack (Jack and Chase pairing) fanfictions. I still consider them to be amazing all these years later. With their permission I have based some of the ideas on how Jack looks and acts into my fanfiction off of CrystallicSky's work but have also taken time to make sure to add my own ideas as to not copy their work completely.

There will be Yaoi in this fanfiction, if that makes you uncomfortable then I highly suggest you don't read. For those that don't mind, I sincerely hope you enjoy my fanfiction.

Anyway enough with my yapping, let's move on to the story. Shall we? As I said before, I hope you enjoy it.


Chapter One:

Seven years had passed since he had last seen the monks, or any of the Heylin side for that matter. Wuya had ditched him a long time ago and the other two main members of the Heylin side could have cared less about him.

As for the lesser villains, none of them compared to the top dogs but even so had made it clear that they had no interest in teaming up with him when he had asked… well begged, but same thing really.

Knowing he'd never last alone he'd been forced to give up completing his goals the way he'd originally intended, this, however, did not stop him from trying to complete them. The first few weeks had been hard, but after forcing himself to calm down enough to think, he had realized that if he worked on them more and really tried, the inventions he'd been using for years and possibly others could be used to further help him in his goals.

A few days after he'd calmed down enough, that's all it had taken to figure out how to upgrade his work, take the bugs out, and make sure he could start the process of making better equipment. His mother had been very supportive when he had finally come out of his room, after months of having locked himself away to work, and he had told her about the work he had done and explained that he wanted to start his own business.

His father, on the other hand, had hated the idea. Thankfully for him, his mother had quickly put the old bastard in his place.

He wanted to feel bad when his parents fought, when they decided enough was enough and split apart, but the fact that months later his mother had somehow managed to get practically everything his father had once owned and it had been she that remained the elites' favorite greatly amused him. Thanks to her, it took him only a year to be invited to parties where, along with the help of the fact that despite events his last name remained the same, he was able to gain enough interest in his projects that he was willingly given enough money to start up a company all by himself.

Year two rolled in and though a new blood in the corporate field he found himself already starting to do well, he still occasionally missed seeing the monks and being in the battles he'd once participated in, but between working on selling his inventions more, which were starting getting bigger fish to bite, and the parties he had attend to kiss ass to gain new the inventions even more attention, all thoughts of the old days were driven to the background.

It was at one of these many parties that he'd met her, the most beautiful creature with the bluest eyes he'd ever laid eyes on. Even his not so secret teenage crush on Ashley, who still hated being called by her real name when he did occasionally see her, could not hold a candle to the goddess he had met.

Wooing this goddess wasn't easy, she was as clever as he was… if not more so at times. Thankfully, making friends with her tall black haired brother had helped calm her fire slightly.

Still he'd found gaining her approval hard, he had learned quickly that she was not one for presents and instead he'd had to find other clever ways of capturing her attention. Finally, the first battle had been won when, at one party, she'd decided to sit by him without having been convinced by her brother to do so.

Though thrilled by this, he had decided to play his own games and had not talked to her during this particular party, mostly as a way to show her that she was not the only one that could play hard to get. Eventually though, both had been driven mad by the silence and the conversations had started, they'd discovered that they shared many things in common and for the things they didn't they agreed to disagree.

Their friendship grew quickly and after a while there was hardly a day when the two didn't speak to one another, without any assistance from outside forces the friends slowly became a couple. By the second year's end the two agreed that they wanted more; though this had been where the trouble had started.

As year three arrived he'd agreed that it was time for him to meet more than her brother. She had met his mother, who had been thrilled to hear he'd found someone, and now he was to meet her parents. Up till now he'd never heard her mention her parents at all and neither had her brother; though, having sensed the topic was a sensitive one, he'd not originally pressed the issue with her.

Finally, the day came where he had been invited to meet her parents and was taken to a gorgeous home he could only assume belonged to her to them. Up until this moment he had not realized that the house she stayed in and always invited him to was her brother's, and tried not to show how nervous he was as she led him inside this new home.

To his surprise, upon meeting her mother he was warmly greeted and invited in. Everything had seemed normal and for a while the three of them were happy, until her father decided to show up.

Had he not met people that could sometimes be worse he would have decided that her father was the devil himself, still even the Heylin he was thinking of in particular had more honor than this man could ever have and that was saying something. Her father had stumbled drunkenly into the room where they'd been happily chatting away in and spotted him; the man had then demanded angrily that he leave in a not so polite fashion.

He had argued with his lover's father and so had she, but unfortunately, this had only made the man more angry. The devil had then grabbed his daughter and had dared to start to try to threaten her into listening to him.

This of course had been completely unexpected and as her boyfriend he had been more than willing to rush into the dangerous situation to protect her, though in doing so he had ended up with a bloody nose and bruised to the point he'd thought he might actually have to go to the hospital. Regardless, it had been worth the pain to say that he had done everything in his power to protect the one he loved.

His girlfriend's mother had been forced to call security to pull her own husband off of him, once the man was gone he himself had been dragged off to get himself medical help; all while in the background he could hear his girlfriend's father yelling at his girlfriend and saying that if his daughter decided to marry him he'd kill them both.

He hadn't taken it seriously at the time, and neither had she; nonetheless, that had been the last encounter with the awful man she was forced to claim as her father that he'd had. With both her mother and brother's approval, as well as the approval of his own mother, he and the woman he loved eventually went off and married in secret.

It hadn't been a big wedding by any stretch of the imagination, nor had it been overly fancy. Nonetheless, it had been one of the happiest moments of his life and the honeymoon afterwards had also definitely made things all the more fun for them.

As the three weeks of freedom passed the newlyweds headed back and, despite the insistence from both his mother and her brother to wait a while before doing so, he bought them both a nice house from which they could both get to their respectable jobs and see each other at the same time when they had time off. By the end of the month, he could tell something was wrong and so could she; she was getting ill constantly and finally, after much insistence from his mother, his mother in law, and her brother, she agreed to go see the doctor with him.

He wasn't sure what he'd been expecting the doctor to tell him exactly, but the news they were given was both shocking and at the same time thrilling. His mother, as well as hers, had squealed with joy when later told the news; it was also a relief when his wife was also thrilled.

Despite his pleading to just work at home, his wife had insisted that he continue to work in person. This was something that grew harder for him to willingly do, however, especially as the days went by and her stomach rounded. Eventually, the time came where he found that when he touched her gently, he could feel small movements.

More time passed and one day as he worked in office, his secretary came in and informed him that it was time. He had rushed to the hospital feeling both very excited as well very nervous at the same time.

There had been no fuss when he ran into the delivery room, one of the perks of having his family name, and he had held his wife's hand the whole time. The experience of watching his wife in pain was not something he liked at all but as the doctor helped her deliver he found himself very excited to see what gender his firstborn was; as they had left it a surprise and he knew that he wasn't the only one who was excited to find out.

When the doctor told them it was a girl he found himself pleased, though someone like him was typically expected to want a boy, he could have cared less if his child was a girl. As the doctor had handed his wife their little girl he couldn't help but feel slightly bad for her; she had inherited his skin tone and hair color and he was worried that she also would have his eye color, which, like it had in his case, would make her a target for bullying.

Much to his relief, and slight astonishment, as his daughter opened her tiny eye, he discovered that his little one had inherited her mother's gorgeous blue coloring. It was as these tiny little eyes looked up at him curiously that all his worries melted instantaneously, and he had fallen in love with her.

His wife had smiled, she had known what he had been thinking without him saying anything. Neither had a chance to comment on the situation, however, as the doctor had suddenly interrupted the quiet communication between them by asking them if they had chosen a name for their daughter

Indeed, the two had almost instantly come up with something together. It was long, and frankly a bit odd unless one knew what meaning it held for them, name; but aside from giving them both a confused look, the doctor hadn't argued.

The doctor's confusion had not concerned them, mostly because their family members had understood the slight joke behind their daughter's name. Besides, they were both very aware that with their combined intellect infused with their daughter, along with the fact that she had inherited certain features inherited from him, that her name wasn't the only thing that might cause her trouble.

Regardless, the two knew that there was no point worrying about the future, it would be years before teasing could possibly become an issue and both wanted to enjoy the time they had while their daughter was still an infant.

Year four and five were two of the best years of his life next to having been married in the third year, as there were many new things that had happened that changed his life. The first part of the fourth year had been the roughest part for the both of them,but then they had expected nothing less as they brought their newborn daughter home.

In reality, it wasn't the fact that their daughter cried a lot at night; in fact she was a very quiet baby, which had concerned them at first but they quickly discovered was a blessing in disguise. His mother, as well as her own in would come over at first to help them learn what being a parent took; teaching them things like learning how to feed their daughter and how to change her, despite these being things they had learned in the classes they had been forced to take, but nonetheless appreciated learning from their actual mothers.

Learning to change diapers on their own, after their mothers had decided them ready for the task, had not been pleasant at first. Thankfully, after a while there were only a few occasions when both of them gagged in disgust.

Bathing their daughter was another task they had learned from their mothers and was a task both of them enjoyed. It was oddly fascinating watching even such a little baby play and was a sight both were glad they could see.

Thankfully, for the most part, both of them were able to do their respective work at home without too much fuss. When one of them did actually have to go into work, it was usually to fix some stupid mistake that most of their workers agreed their management should have been able to fix without either of them having had to come in.

On the very rare occasion when both of them had to work at the same time, one of their mothers, or perhaps her brother, would come over to watch the baby. They had both agreed that hiring a nanny they didn't know just simply wouldn't happen until their little girl was old enough to call them if she needed them.

Though the moments they were forced to miss were precious, they didn't force any of their relatives to record them. Instead, the moments they did get to see were made all the more precious.

Halfway through the fourth year, the first with their beautiful little girl, both were shocked to discover that his wife's brother was getting married to his longtime girlfriend.

Of course they had both been thrilled to hear this news, and the decision had immediately been made that, despite not being able to walk yet, their daughter would be the flower girl.

Sadly, as had been the case with their own wedding, her brother's engagement had to be left a secret from his and his sister's monster of a father. They had waited until the old devil was out of the country before the wedding had been held.

Seeing his daughter in her cute little dress and wheeling her up to the altar with his wife had been a joyous event, as had been getting to spend time with his brother in law and his brother in law's new wife. When his wife's brother learned that he was expecting a week or so after the honeymoon had ended, there was teasing from both him and his wife and from both their mothers as well; though in reality, everyone was overjoyed.

In the middle of that year, their daughter had a new male cousin to play with. He assured his brother in law that he wasn't jealous that he and his wife had been blessed with a boy, and made it very clear that he loved his little girl very much and wouldn't trade her for anything.

In fact, he loved his daughter so much and paid so much attention to her that he very quickly realized that she was very special. Naturally, of course, he realized that all parents thought this of their children; but was a different case,

Their daughter had progressed far faster than anyone had expected, and by a year old the little girl could already talk in small words and had an unusual understanding of things that a normal one year old just shouldn't. His little girl loved to draw and loved building things, though not obviously not perfect at either, her skills were nonetheless impressive.

By the fifth year, or in other words year two of their little girl's life, she could walk and talk in almost complete sentences; furthermore, her reading skills were already starting to develop. She could also now draw and build more elaborate things.

Regardless of her talents, he and his wife acknowledged that she was still only two and both of them did their best to encourage their daughter to play like a normal girl her age would. Eventually, after the instance from even his brother and law, he and his wife had agreed that they should give their daughter an IQ test; both being surprised, however, to discover that their daughter had an even higher IQ then he'd had as a boy.

Of course, they had both been thrilled to discover this; though they knew that a long road ahead of them. Not long after the test, they had been encouraged to put their daughter in school; however, not thinking that their daughter was ready, he and his wife made the decision to tutor her themselves for a bit.

They were both pleased with how she progressed, never forgetting that she was still only two; he loved spending time with both his wife and daughter and watching as his daughter grew up made him think that things would be wonderful forever…and for most of the rest of his second year with his wife and daughter he was right.

Unfortunately, near the end of the year things started to go from great to bad. How the monster had found out about their union and their little girl he had no idea, but one day as he was returning home from a rough day of fixing a mess that had occurred at his company, thanks to a now fired worker, he found himself being pinned to a nearby wall and threatened by the awful man.

He had been warned to watch himself, warned that he and his wife would die, and warned that their daughter would be forced to watch him suffer. Of course, he had been helped get free by his security and then by the police who had taken the monster away, leading to him deciding that, with continued help of his security guards, that he wouldn't have to worry about the old devil's threats… Oh if only he had been more worried.

It happened on New Year's, they had all decided to get a party being held at his brother in law's house. One minute everything was fine and they were all having fun, but as the countdown started the lights suddenly all went out and they were all forced to stumble around trying to get the power on.

He never saw it coming, but the last thing he remembered before hearing a gun go off in the darkness was the feeling of being hit at the back of his head, he could vaguely feel himself being lifted up and being carried away but there was nothing he could do about it.

Upon awakening on the morning of the sixth year, he immediately knew something was wrong. He overheard someone yelling and once his head had cleared enough to make sense of what was being said he realized that not only had he been tied up; but he was also hearing the monster screaming something about the wrong person having been killed.

The words were like poison to his ears and he couldn't bring himself to accept what he knew was true, regardless, there was no denying the fact, as he looked around and spotted his daughter being forcefully held by the monster, that his wife was nowhere in sight. He wanted to cry or to scream in anger, but he couldn't speak because he had been gagged; though what was even worse was his daughter was in danger and there was nothing he could do about it.

The thought that his wife was dead thanks to her own father disgusted him, but the thought of losing his daughter too was not one he cared to think about. Thus, when the monster ordered the gag to be removed so he could speak his final words before being tortured, he wasted no time in pleading for the monster to keep his daughter alive; also pleading for the man to take his daughter out of the room while they tortured him.

He was somewhat relieved to be told by the monster that his little girl would be kept alive, though he was gagged again before he could protest the fact that the monster also informed him that he was not going to grant his request to take his daughter out of the room; due to the monster wanting his daughter to fear what might happen to her if she didn't obey him,

He tried his hardest not to scream or to thrash so his little one wasn't scared, but as the torture increased this task grew harder and harder. Eventually, the pain caught up with him and his ability to hold in his screams started to slowly flew out the window.

For a brief second, despite the pain he was in, he somehow managed to open his eyes to look at his precious little girl in the hopes that she would see how sorry he was that he'd failed her; though as he did he saw her crying; saw the tears her beautiful blue eyes that matched her mother's and couldn't help the sudden rush of fury that filled him.

What happened next he honestly didn't know for sure because the pain from the torture maid pass out, all he remembered was the whole room suddenly started shaking, the lights flickered and finally he noticed certain other objects that seemed to acting strangely. Of course there had been no time to think about why all of these things were happening as he had passed out and upon waking and finding himself in a new place he found a whole set of new questions in his head.

He was no longer chained up any more; though he was in a very odd looking cell, he felt dizzy and couldn't do anything as one of the devil's men came into his cell. He was shocked when the men who had come into his cell told him that the devil had decided to keep him alive; they didn't go into detail as to why but did say that if he wanted to keep himself, as well as his poor little girl, alive he would do as he was told.

Of course he wanted nothing more than to keep his daughter alive and had agreed to obey, secretly though he started to plot a way to free both himself and his daughter from the grasps of the monster. Things didn't change much over the next few days except for the fact that instead of being tortured constantly the monster's men started to do strange experiments on him, poking, prodding, and injecting him with strange things which frankly wasn't any more fun than being tortured.

Nonetheless, despite the pain all the experiments brought, he had cooperated. In doing so he kept his daughter safe, and though that was what was most important to him, he also discovered other less important reasons why cooperating was a good thing.

The first of these less important reasons was discovering that his brother in law had gotten away as had his brother in law's wife and child, his mother in law, and his own mother were also safe. This news gave both him and his daughter ties to his wife and to the outside world, giving him hope that they might both be rescued from his monster of a father in law.

Another reason that cooperating proved to be a good thing, was when, after about a week or two, he was allowed to make sure his company was running. Though it was true that he wasn't allowed to actually talk to anyone at his company personally, nonetheless, when one of the monster's hired men would come in and ask him what they should tell those who worked at his company, he would slip in secret codes that only certain members of his company would pick up on and hoped that they would at least be able to save his daughter.

Unfortunately, the codes he had slipped in had done little good and no one had saved her yet. Still, a small part of him held out hope that someone would, and in the meantime, one of the other more important things that came from cooperating was the fact that he was allowed to invent again; though he was heavily supervised every time he built something.

The last reason cooperating had proven to be a good thing, was that after a while he started to realize that the reason all these experiments were being done was because they were looking for something. What this something was he didn't know for sure yet, all he knew at first was it had something to do with what had happened on the night he had first been tortured. He pondered what this something was, tried to remember what had happened and tried to make sense of why his life had been spared after that night.

When he wasn't thinking about what exactly they were looking for he was instead thinking about his daughter and wondering, even though the experiments he was put through were painful, if she was being treated well. The one thing that aggravated him above all else was when the monster actually did come to observe the experiments, it was a rare occurrence but when the monster did show, he never brought her with; he also rarely would confirm the fact that she was still being cared for.

Whilst it was good to occasionally be assured that his daughter was safe, it was maddening to not be able to see her at least once. This was why, when halfway through the year his routine changed, he didn't complain due to hoping that if he did what he was told, he would get a moment with his daughter at the New Year's beginning.

The change in routine was slight but nonetheless strange. A new man that had not been taking care of him previously suddenly started coming into his cell and asking him very odd questions about the one thing he'd never expected the monster to care about… the years before his company and family.

Of course, when he had first started answering these questions he had been sure the man sent to ask him them would go off and tell the monster that he was either lying or crazy, but to his surprise this never occurred. In fact, he was shocked when the man started coming in more frequently.

When they had reached the part about the monks and the objects he'd once fought over with them, as well as mentioning some of those on the Heylin side, he was again shocked that the questions didn't stop. He was even more shocked when the mansion to question him had asked if he'd be able to find one of the objects for the monster.

Of course, the last thing he wanted was for the monster to have one of the objects, but after everything he'd been through the same promise of being able to see his daughter caused him to agree to at least try. For the first time in months, he was allowed almost complete privacy, or at least that's the way it seemed to his tired brain.

In no time at all he had the device built, but just as he wondered when they would come get it and also wondered if the monster would keep his promise, his room had been stormed and he realized for the first time as he was bound, gagged, and led away. That he had allowed himself to be tricked angered him to no end, unfortunately there had been nothing he could do about it at the time.

He didn't know exactly how they managed to do it, but somehow they found a way to keep him docile enough to be taken anywhere they wanted; and though he was unable to keep them from killing him even if they decided to, for some reason they had chosen to continue keeping him alive.

The rest of the year had been spent being taken care of, but not being able to move or do anything other than what they wanted. He had almost gotten used to being left the dark quiet box, or whatever he was in, and had almost accepted the fact that he'd never see the light of day again… when suddenly everything changed.

Seven years had passed since he had last seen any of the monks, or any of the Heylin side for that matter, though despite this fact and the fact that they had obviously all changed as well. As his box was wheeled to wherever he was being taken, he heard oddly familiar but older sounding voices, and for the first time in a while his eyes flashed open as he realized what was likely happening.

It wasn't just the monks he heard either, the apprentice of his childhood idol was there too, though he didn't hear her master anywhere. He also heard Wuya's familiar voice, as well as a certain bean he hated, both of whom were mocking whoever had his confined cage for lugging around.

He heard the person wheeling him around saying something about the fact that someone, aka him, was in the box and that they would all be shocked to see who was inside as they had once known him. Naturally, the Heylin members that were there could have cared less, but it was oddly refreshing to hear the monks gasp in shock and horror upon hearing someone was in the box.

He grew a bit bored for a minute when the man wheeling him around started to talk about the experiments, but suddenly his interest was piqued when the man told all those gathered that in the experiments on him they had found something that they were surprised the Monks and Heylin members had never noticed before. He didn't have a chance to wonder what on earth the man was talking about because suddenly he found himself feeling both shocked, and relieved, as he felt something he hadn't felt for a while… the sensation of his arms, legs, and all his body parts, all being freed.

His shock from this couldn't fully set in, however, when he heard the man say that it was time for the monks and Heylin to see who the old friend in the box was. Before he could brace himself, the door to his cage opened and light poured in, blinding him because of how long he had been kept in there.

As his eyes adjusted to the brightness he heard gasps from even the Heylins, finally as he regained his vision after a few blinks he heard a name he hadn't heard in a whole year.

"Jack?! Is that really you?!" the voice of Kimiko asked, sounding very shocked indeed as she saw him.