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Fluttershy untightened the string on her saddlebag and walked out of the entrance to the temple. She took one look back and whimpered.
"No," she said, "I'm doing this for the sake of the animals and for the sake of the good!"
She opened up her saddlebag and took out the Golden Tiger Claws with her wing. She put it on her hoof and the claws transformed into a fitting shape.
"Golden Tiger Claws." she whispered, slowly flying into the portal she calmly slashed open.
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She jumped out of the other side and returned the Tiger Claws to her saddlebag, tightening the string. She then pulled a mask over her face, leaving just her eyes, snout and mouth uncovered. She tiphooved beside the wall of Jack's garden and stood directly towards it.
"Stare-Zhu! Kindness...oh and please be quiet!" she whispered, giving a large glare at the wall as she faintly glowed yellow.
The wall silently crumbled infront of her. She smirked and began to move into Jack's garden. She scanned the area, looking for anything that may detect her and began to stealthily move across the garden towards a window.
"Oh what do I do now? It might take too long to ready the Tiger Claws." she thought.
She saw a light in the window and instantly ducked. A voice came from inside.
"It's so stuffy tonight. It stinks of Jack's sweat too. Why does that boy never open the window?" The screechy female voice said, lifting the hatch of the window and opening it.
Fluttershy smiled and waited for who she assumed to be Jack's mother to pass by. She silently entered through the window and looked infront of her. There was a large metallic door.
JACK'S PALACE. KEEP OUT. FUTURE WORLD RULER JACK SPICER ONLY.
Fluttershy sniggered at Jack's pathetic behaviour, then looked to see what would open the door. She heard footsteps come far from behind it and backed up against the wall, furiously searching through her bag. She then heard returning footsteps from the woman and saw in a glint of moonlight she was carrying a washing basket. Fluttershy simply closed her eyes and hoped she would walk past. As the woman walked by, Fluttershy felt something cover her. She almost screamed but shoved a hoof in her mouth before she could. She felt the fabric around her and thought it must have come out of the wash basket Jack's mother was carrying.
"Wait..." she thought, feeling it a bit more, "this unusual texture is just like something Omi described. A Shen Gong Wu..."
"Shroud of Shadows" she whispered.
Fluttershy instantly vanished from her own vision. She waved a hoof infront of her eyes and couldn't see it in the moonlight. Success! She then heard the other footsteps from behind the door get closer and the door opened, unleashing a horrible smell. Fluttershy held her nose and she crept in to the room as Jack exited, closing the door behind him.
"Now where is she?" he said; Fluttershy assumed he was talking about his mother.
She walked down some metal stairs, then began to lightly fly as she noticed she was making noise on them. She saw a Jackbot flying in circles at the bottom of the stairs and swiftly avoided it, tightly gripping the Shroud of Shadows she wore. She then looked at the rectangular table in the center of the room and found what she was looking for. The Tongue of Saiping! She flew over to it and picked it up, then heard the doors open again. She let go of it and hid under the table as she saw Jack come down.
"Alright Jackbot. Did you see anything?" Jack asked.
"Nothing." The robot replied.
"Go and deactivate then," Jack pointed towards a heap of switched off Jackbots, "conserve your batteries."
The Jackbot rushed to the pile and switched itself off, making a loud clang as it fell on them.
"JACK, GO TO BED, IT'S MIDNIGHT!" Jack's mother screeched from upstairs.
"I'M WORKING, MOM!" Jack shouted back, throwing a blue sphere at the door, "oops."
He ran to pick it up and returned to the table.
"The Tongue of Saiping. Just the bait I needed...but were my calculations correct?" He set down the sphere next to the Tongue and walked to his computer.
He began to mumble and type, Fluttershy quietly flew up to the table and grabbed the Tongue, quickly putting it in her saddlebag under the Shroud of Shadows. She tried to grab the sphere but she panicked and dropped it, causing a loud bang on the floor.
"Ah, my guest has arrived!" Jack said, spinning round in his chair.
Fluttershy gasped and galloped for the door, ditching the Shroud of Shadows. She fumbled through her bag whilst running and grabbed the Golden Tiger Claws. Jack chased after her. She leapt out of the window and next to a pond in Jack's garden. She held tightly onto the Tiger Claws, but saw Jack was also holding onto it. The Claws began to glow.
"Fluttershy! I challenge you to a Xiaolin Showdown!" Jack smirked.
Fluttershy avoided eye contact and whimpered.
"The game is to stay on the rocks. The one to not fall in the pond wins." Jack said, "I wager my Dizzy Top. What do you have again?"
"Th-the Mantis F-flip Coin." Fluttershy whispered.
"Alright. LET'S GO! XIAOLIN SHOWDOWN!" only Jack shouted.
Fluttershy and Jack were moved to the stones in Jack's pond. Fluttershy's sneaking outfit was replaced with her black belt. The rocks rose skyward and floated in the air.
"GONG YI TENpai" Jack shouted, Fluttershy whimpered.
"DIZZY TOP!" Jack instantly called.
He began to spin fast and Fluttershy could not distinguish which way he was facing at any time due to his spinning speed. Fluttershy chose not to be distracted and focused on staying on the stone, which was only just wider than her.
"DIZZY TOP!" Jack called again, the Doppler effect making it hardly audible.
He stopped spinning perfectly on the stop and an after image of him spinning shot out of the Dizzy Top, launching itself at Fluttershy. She cowered behind her hooves and was struck by the ghostly spinning Jack, she began to wobble and fell backwards, grabbing on to the edge of the rock with a wing. Jack jumped over to her.
"This will end quickly." He laughed.
Fluttershy's face turned serious. She held the Mantis Flip Coin in her mouth.
"MANTIF FWIP COY!" she called, flipping forwards furiously and landing on another rock.
She spat out the coin into her wing and smirked at Jack.
"MANTIS FLIP COIN!" she called, flipping to and kicking Jack.
He fell off, "DIZZY TOP!" he called.
He was spinning in midair and rose up to the stone. Fluttershy flinched and tried not to be hit by him. He rammed into her and she fell off. She began to fly back up, but Jack stopped again.
"DIZZY TOP!" he called.
The afterimage hit her again and she uncontrollably fell downwards. Jack won the Showdown. Everything returned to normal.
Fluttershy was still falling, but she landed on something soft and did not impact on the ground.
"Are ya'll alright, sugarcube?" Applejack asked, petting Fluttershy softly.
"Applejack?" she said in tears.
"It's okay buddy. Spike got us here just in time." Rainbow Dash smiled.
Spike, who had just swooped in to her rescue and was flying back to the temple, looked back and gave a thumbs up to Fluttershy.
"Oh darling, when we noticed you were gone we just knew that you had come here to get the Tongue of Saiping." Rarity explained.
"We were so worried about you, Fluttershy!" Pinkie added.
"We're lucky we guessed right," said Twilight, "we're just glad you're okay."
"Thanks guys," Fluttershy sniffed.
"That awful boy Jack was horrible to you in that Showdown." Rarity pouted.
"Oh...sorry girls. I lost the Golden Tiger Claws and Mantis Flip Coin." Fluttershy began to cry again.
"Aw it's alright, Fluttershy," Applejack consoled her, "y'win some y'lose some. Did y'all get the Tongue of Saiping?"
Fluttershy checked her bag. She brightened up when she grabbed something wet and pulled out the Tongue.
"I got it!" She said, wiping away her tears.
"At least you got what you came for!" Rainbow Dash patted her on the back.
"TONGUE OF SAIPING!" Fluttershy called.
She looked at a flock of birds who had just risen during sunrise and talked to them with it, then started laughing.
"What'd you tell them to do?" Pinkie asked.
"Oh, just a little thanks to Jack for not noticing I took the Tongue." Fluttershy giggled.
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"JACK! WHY IS THE HOUSE COVERED IN BIRD POOP? I'M BLAMING YOU FOR THIS ENTIRELY! NOW GO AND CLEAN IT UP AND NO HELP FROM YOUR ROBOT TOYS!" Jack's mother shouted.
"How did this happen?" Jack cried, scrubbing the roof of white splotches just about everywhere.