User:Caerwine/The Journey of a Thousand Miles (Xiaolin Showdown)

The Journey of a Thousand Miles is episode 101 of Xiaolin Showdown. It first aired in the United States on November 1, 2003.

Omi, a young Xiaolin Dragon-in-training is joined by three new students. However, the release of an ancient evil will send Omi and the three new students on a quest to obtain the magical Shen Gong Wu from the various places they have been hidden.

Synopsis
Thousands of years ago, Dashi, a fully trained monk fought the evil witch, Wuya, in the very first Xiaolin Showdown for the Shen-Gong-Wu. Dashi defeated Wuya, and he casted Wuya in a wooden puzzle-box so that there will be no more evil. Dashi took the Shen-Gong-Wu and spread its pieces all over the world. So that no one will attain that great of a power anymore ...

Present day. Omi, a young monk-in-training who must find the missing Shen-Gong-Wu pieces before the evil Jack Spicer and his partner in crime, Wuya, can. Master Fung, Omi's teacher, enlists a new band of students for Omi to train in his quest to locate all the Shen Gong Wu objects. They are Raimundo, Clay, and Kimiko. Also, the temple guardian, Dojo the dragon protects them on their adventures. Each Shen-Gong-Wu piece represents a certain ability or power that Omi and his team or Jack can possess.

Omi finds out where the first Shen-Gong-Wu object is hidden. It is called the Mantis Flip Coin. Obviously, it's power is to make you flip in mid-air. The team flies to San Francisco on Dojo, who turns fifty feet. Jack reaches it first, and he sends his Jack-bots out to destroy Omi and the rest, while he makes his escape. Even though Omi and the team defeated a majority of the Jack-bots, Jack manages to escape with the Mantis Flip Coin. Kimiko immediately finds out where the next object is, and it is called the Two Ton Tunic. The name is self explanatory. It also deflects anything that hits it, making it indestructible.

The team races to where the tunic is hidden, and Omi finds it. It is on a bridge by a river, and soon Raimundo, Kimiko, and Clay kick Jack into a boat, and the impact knocks him cold. Omi puts on the Two Ton Tunic, but accidentally releases its power, making it weigh two tons. The bridge breaks from under Omi, and all of them drop into the water.

Later, the team learns that the next object they need to get is the Eye of Dashi. Dojo gets them to where it is as fast as he can, and they find it right away. Just as Omi grabs it, Jack is grabbing a hold of it. We then learn that if two warriors reach a stalemate over a Shen-Gong-Wu object, then a Xiaolin Showdown must take place to see who deserves the object! Also, whoever wins then that means that person gets the other two objects as well.

The Showdown that will be happening is a race to the finish with jumping from one rock to the other... three hundred feet in the air! At the end is the Eye of Dashi. Whoever gets to the end first gets to claim it. Omi uses the Two Ton Tunic to help him, and Jack uses the Mantis Flip Coin. After being behind for a while, the result at the end is that Omi wins, and gets to have all three Shen-Gong-Wu objects!

The team goes back to the Xiaolin Temple, where Master Fung is waiting. He tells all of them that in time they will develop elements as their power. Omi is already water. Master Fung explains that Kimiko will have fire, Raimundo will have wind, and Clay will have earth.

Shen Gong Wu

 * The Mantis Flip Coin was found by Jack Spicer in San Francisco. Jack uses it to jump around.


 * The Two Ton Tunic was found by Jack Spicer in Venice, but the monks manage to take it away from him before he can put it on. When Omi activates the Two Ton Tunic for the first time, its weight causes the canal dock he and the other dragons-in-training are standing on to collapse.


 * The Eye of Dashi was hanging by a string loop from a tree in a sylvan wilderness location and was the subject of the episode's Xiaolin Showdown.

Guest Characters
There is no other characters other than the eight main characters that appear.

Showdowns
Who versuing who: Omi vs. Jack

Wagers: Omi's Two Ton Tunic vs. Jack's Mantis Flip Coin For: Eye of Dashi Game: Stone Jumping to the Wu Winner: Omi

Clay's Downhome Sayings
"It's not your weight; it's how you throw it around." -- while smashing a Jack-Bot with a belly bump. "Better not catch your chickens before they hatch."-- as Jack summons a couple dozen Jack-Bots.

Kimiko's Techno-Fashion
Hairstyle: Short, layered, blonde with a blue hair wrap in the back that goes past her waist. Top: Blue sleeveless turtleneck top with a red star in the middle, and long white fingerless gloves Bottom: Red and white skirt, white socks up to her knees, blue leggings, and red and white shoes. Gadgets: Po-chi Raider portable game, PDA, and cellphone.

Raimundo's Schemes
Raimundo asked master Fung about the bed and other accomadations as they are gathered together to start the sarch for the Shen Gong Wu, but Master Fung does not answer him, which he realised only later.

The Wisdom of Master Fung
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step." -- Said at the end of the episode and attributed by Master Fung to a desk calendar.

Dojo’s Wu Sense
Dojo convulsed when the Mantis Flip Coin activates, and was used as a dousing rod by Raimundo when they reached the locale of the Eye of Dashi.

Jack Spicer’s Bots
Only standard Jack-Bots were shown in this episode. They used some sort of blue ray gun in their bellies when Jack intitially met Wuya. They used vertically whirling shoulder blades at the first encounter between Jack and the Dragons-in-training.