Time Slip (Xiaolin Showdown Fanfic - Original Version)

New Wu

Dashi returned at noon and called forth his four pupils and his extra student to sit at the table. He pulled out two items and set them on the table. One was a blue stone that looked quite familiar to Kimiko, being the Dashi Bunny and the other that looked to be a silver version of the Golden Tiger Claws. He then set out the Reversing Mirror near them. "These two items are new Shen Gong Wu and an old one. This is the Dashi Bunny, the Silver Lion Claws and Reversing Mirror."

"What do the new Wu do?" Toa asked, looking skeptically at the Silver Lion Claws.

"I am for once not going to tell you," the man smiled, mischief in his eyes.

"What… that isn't fare!" Doan nearly sobbed. "We can't tell which item to pick from as we don't know if it matches our elements!"

"Well, Ching won't ever know if it matches his element," Toa commented.

"Hey!"

"You will call Chase by his real name," Dashi said, narrowing his eyes. "I have reasons for doing it this way. Ladies first… which would you pick to use?"

Kimiko glanced at them. The only new thing to her was the Silver Lion Claws, so she pointed at them and was surprised as the boys went pale. She moved her finger to the reversing mirror and saw that Tao and Doan turned pale, so she moved her finger to the Dashi Bunny. "This one."

One by one, the boys picked the one she had. Dashi had regained the mischievous look in his eyes. "Is it that all four of you have a crush on our young lady… or is there something more to this?"

None of the boys answered, though Dashi continued to smile. "We'll have our usual Showdown for practice. Would you like to participate or watch?"

Kimiko fingered her camera in her pocket and frowned. This would be a good chance to get pictures of all four of the boys, Master Dashi and young Dojo. "No… I'll watch."

"Here is the Showdown. You will have to chase a bunny… the first to capture it wins," the man then nodded for the boys to step outside of the household into the yard. He set the bunny down on the ground and all four boys touched it simultaneously.

"Gong Yi Tanpai!" they yelled and the yard changed into a huge maze, on top of which Kimiko and Master Dashi was standing. He watched as she began to take pictures of what the boys were doing.

"Might I ask why Toa and Doan were so on our case for the Showdown we had earlier, but not now?"

"That would be because we try to keep this secret from normal people, but the fact is… if they find out, it doesn't really matter… expesully since they have to still do their training.

It was then that the bunny suddenly appeared and Kimiko had to stifle her laughter. The bunny was pink, marched forward on two feet, wore sunglasses and beat a drum. All four boys stared at the bunny, their eyebrows going up. Chase looked up at Master Dashi. "Is this another one of the crazy things you've thought up?"

"Ahh… one might say that!" Dashi smiled. "Of course… the bunny is considered a mascot… an iconic image for something in the future."

"Iconic image…" Doan muttered. "Could we have a mascot?"

"Yeah… our mascots baby Ching!" Tao laughed, only to be yelled at by both Dashi and Chase.

"Our mascot is Dojo," Gaun commented. "Now let's go!"

"Yeah… well, this one should be easy," Tao commented.

"I think it's going to take you guys awhile," Kimiko yelled. "That's the energizer bunny! It just keeps going and going and going and…"

"We get the point Lian-Li," Chase laughed. He watched as Tao and Doan dived for it, but it hurried away, disappearing. The boys then quickly disappeared into the maze.

Dashi smiled after them and said in a voice so that only the girl could hear. "You are right about it going to take awhile Kimiko."

Kimiko's jaw dropped. "You know my name?"

"Well, yes… I traveled to the future to find out more about you… and how to get you back to the future. Of course… finding out your name required me to talk to more then just the person I went to talk to, but I needed to see some things…"

"So the Sands of Time…"

"Aren't how I'm supposed to get you home…" the man said.

"Then how?" Kimiko asked.

"It involves how you got here… which means getting the details cleared up from the boys… even though I already know from the person I went to talk too."

"But that means that the person had to have been Master Monk Gaun or Chase Young… Tao and Doan aren't in the future…"

"I know they aren't… but they might end up being there… who knows. I was also right about who to pick to go ask questions of,"

"Master Monk Gaun," Kimiko sighed.

"Perhaps… or perhaps not…" they watched as three of the boys, the older ones, were hunting the bunny down, however, Chase sat down and began to meditate.

"Oh, come on Chase…" Doan said shaking his head. "You won't catch the thing that way."

"Or he will." Gaun laughed. "I understand his idea… but it is too much fun chasing the rabbit."

"When I CATCH that pink, fluffy rabbit, I am going to tear its tail, nose and ears out!" Tao yelled in frustration. It was then that the rabbit sped by, knocking over the boy. It rushed past Chase as it was sitting and he reached out and grabbed it, but Gaun grabbed it at the same time.

Kimiko watched as Dashi slapped his head. "Why is it always ties with those two unless it is something that one has to be better then the other at? And even then it tends to end in a draw."

Kimiko watched as the Showdown ended and she saw the two boys both holding onto the Shen Gong Wu. Tao and Doan were both pouting. Gaun smiled at the two of them. "So… what is it that this Shen Gong Wu does?"

"It turns you into electricity!' Kimiko suddenly beamed. "You can shoot into electrical outlets and bust up robots real good!"

"What's… a robot?" Chase asked confusion in his voice.

"It's kind of like the transportation Wu," Dashi said, "Except they stay and are hand built, no magic involved."

"Sure…" Tao muttered.

Chase was suddenly glancing around, not to sure about his surroundings. "Dashi… something's not right."

"No… I sense it too…" Dashi said. "I wonder if it's going to snow."

"What?" Tao said. "It's the summer time!"

"That's not what…" Chase muttered. Gaun shook his head.

"We had best get inside before it starts snowing Chase," the boy smiled at the younger boy. He then whispered into Chase's ear so that Kimiko could also hear. "I sense it too, but the thing is… one has to be very careful… so we're making what ever it is think that we are going inside."