Author's Notes: Chipmunkfanatic gave me permission to play with her RaiKim OC babies, and this short story was the result! Feel free to read and review!

Atop the roof of the Xiaolin Temple vault, Wuya smirked down at the four with a bag of stolen Shen Gong Wu in tow. "Now, now, Xiaolin Warriors, it's nothing personal."

Raimundo cracked his knuckles, and Kimiko flexed her shoulders. Honestly, Wuya's arrival at the temple was almost a welcome one; not much had changed since Raimundo's promotion, and the daily routine had started to get downright dull. Train, finish chores, find the Wu, kick Jack's butt, rinse and repeat. At least the Heylin witch was a challenge.

Still, was it too much to ask for something new to happen?

"Prepare for defeat, Wuya!" Omi shouted, pointing dramatically.

While Kimiko and Omi rushed to flank either side of the vault, Raimundo soared up. "Shoku Astro Wind!" He flung a disk of condensed air at Wuya, who ducked the attack and sprang down the stone wall. Clay skidded to a stop in front of the witch. The four braced themselves for battle: same old, same old.

Then, before any of the Wudai Warriors could call upon their elements, a sphere of light erupted in the middle of the courtyard. The monks and villains whirled to face it, and when the orb faded, two red-clad teenagers dropped to their butts in front of them.

After a stunned second, Clay said, "Well, I'll be hogtied." Raimundo hovered in the air to cock his head at the newcomers, and Kimiko and Omi froze in place. Even Wuya paused in the action to raise her eyebrows.

The two, a boy and a girl, wore the robes of pre-apprentice Xiaolin Dragons. With matching dark hair, tan skin, and green eyes, their hands clasped onto a set of metallic golden claws on the girl's wrist, but the boy quickly let go to gawk at their surroundings.

The girl stared down at the claws with lips pursed. "Oops."

After giving the encircling warriors and villain a horrified glance over, the boy whirled to her and cried, "What did you do?"

"It's not my fault!" She pulled the claws off and stood up. "It was only supposed to go back twenty minutes, not twenty ye—"

"Master Omi told you the Cheetah Claws can't be controlled. You're lucky we still have our clothes on!" The boy stepped away from the girl, wrinkling his nose at her and shuddering as if the very idea of his comrade naked was too horrific for words.

Omi was the first to recover from the sudden intrusion. He jumped out of Wuya's hair and trotted toward the new arrivals. "Pardon me, honorable strangers, but who are you, and why are you wearing the robes of Xiaolin Dragons in training?"

When the two looked up toward the voice, the girl gasped, slapped a hand to her mouth, and pointed at Omi. "He—!"

"Um, hello," said the boy, forcing a polite smile while kicking at his comrade's shin. "We seem to have arrived here on accident—"

"He's so short!" the girl squealed, grinning at Omi. "He's even tinier than back home—he's so cute!"

The boy cast a wide-eyed glare back at her. "Chill pill, please."

Wuya finally regained the sense to utilize the convenient distraction. She threw Kimiko across the courtyard, and when the other monks spun around to face her, she leaped at the two newcomers. The boy spotted her first and shoved the girl out of the way with a call of alarm, but the witch skidded to a stop in front of them and snatched up the Cheetah Claws.

"This Wu seems to have caused you some trouble," she said with a toothy grin. "Why don't I take it off your hands?"

Both teens' faces paled, but when they jumped forward, she sprang into the air with the Longi Kite and soared over the temple wall, taking the cluster of the other stolen Shen Gong Wu with her.

After a moment with her mouth hanging open, the girl said, "Huh. That… that might be a problem."

"Might be?!" The boy gripped his cropped hair, looking ready to yank it out.

The four original monks bounded down from the rooftops and the obstacle course. Approaching the two strangers, Raimundo nodded his head. "Uh. 'Sup."

"'Sup," said the girl, beaming. The boy groaned.

"Kinda crashed our party there," said Raimundo. "Mind telling us who you are?"

"Oh, right! You wouldn't know us yet, would you? My name is Ka—" The girl's voice cut off when the boy slammed his foot onto hers.

While she gritted her teeth and tried to maintain some degree of composure, the boy wrapped his arm around her shoulders and said with a rather forced smile, "There was a bug on your shoe." Then to the other monks, he said, "My name is, uh, Rio. And this is my twin sister… Maybelline."

"Like the town?" asked Raimundo.

"And the makeup?" asked Kimiko.

Rio bit his lip. "…Yes."

Kimiko, Clay, and Raimundo exchanged unconvinced glances. Omi stepped forward and asked, "I have never heard of the Cheetah Claws Shen Gong Wu. What does it do?"

Rio gritted his teeth, looking torn. "It… uh…"

Maybelline sprang down to crouch in front of Omi with eyes gleaming. "They let you travel through time," she said. "Kind of like the Sands of Time, except—"

"Except dangerous, unpredictable, and with a really weird side effect on the user's clothing." Rio looked down at his robes, shuddered, and glared at his sister. "Which is why we're not allowed to use it."

Maybelline flailed her hands at him. "It was an emergency!"

"What kind of emergency?" asked Omi.

Rio rolled his eyes. "She completely fried Mom's computer. Somehow set the thing on fire. No idea how she pulled that off."

Maybelline kept her eyes trained on Omi, almost as if she was purposefully avoiding eye contact with the other monks. "Mom was gonna kill me if she found out—"

"So of course the only logical course of action was to use an extremely unstable Shen Gong Wu to go back in time and prevent herself from doing it." Rio sighed. "For the record, I tried to stop her, but as you can see…"

"So y'all are from the future?" Clay asked, nodding thoughtfully. He glanced back and forth between the two newcomers and the two taller monks next to him.

"Uh—" said Rio.

"Yep!" said Maybelline. "About tw—" She eyed the alarmed look on her brother's face, "Tw…ooo hundred years? Yeah. Two hundred years in the future."

"Give or take a few decades," said Rio.

"But didn't y'all say something about Master Omi?" Clay asked, now unabashedly comparing the physical features of Raimundo and Kimiko with those of Rio and Maybelline.

"Oh." Rio's face paled again. "Uh, well, you see, Master Omi is—uh, super old, but…"

"Of course he is," said Maybelline, nodding. "He jumps all over the time space continuum with the Sands of Time you guys gave him. Remember?" Rio's mouth dropped open in shock, and she sent a smug grin in his direction before turning back to the cowboy. "He told us all about you guys. You're Clay, right? The Xiaolin Dragon of Earth?"

"Mm-hmm," said Clay, finger to his chin.

She nodded at the other two. "You're Raimundo, the Xiaolin Dragon of Wind, and Kimiko, the Xiaolin Dragon of Fire. And you're Omi, of course." She beamed at the smallest warrior. "Don't worry, little dude; you're gonna get taller. Not by much, but—"

"So. Um." Rio slapped his hands to his sides. "I think my sis and I kinda need to have a talk. You know, discuss strategies for getting back home and stuff. So we'll be… over there for a minute." He gestured in the vague direction of the obstacle course before grabbing Maybelline's arm and dragging her out of earshot of the other monks.

Watching them go, Kimiko said, "They're hiding something."

Raimundo crossed his arms. "Yep, no doubt."

"But they are Xiaolin Dragons in training!" said Omi. "We must not spring to conclusions. We should treat them with hospitality and respect until they can return home."

Clay shrugged. "I'm with Omi on this one. Besides, I reckon their secrets ain't malicious."

"What do you mean?" asked Raimundo.

"No one else thinks they look a tad familiar?" Clay raised an eyebrow at Raimundo and Kimiko, who shrugged at him.

"I've never seen them before," said Kimiko.

"Me neither," said Raimundo. "What are you getting at?"

Clay sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Nothin'."

Meanwhile, Rio and Maybelline trotted to the monkey bars before he let go of her arm. She scowled. "I don't see the point in lying to them if you're gonna be so bad at it." She put her hands on her hips while a grin crept over her face. "I mean, Rio? Really? Why don't you just yell across the field, 'Hey, guess who our papa is'?"

"You know I suck at lying," muttered Rio, hands on his face, "especially to Mom and Papa."

"Then why bother?"

This time it was his turn to flail at her, eyes round. "We can't let them figure out who we are! We could prevent our own existence!"

"Why would they not want us after figuring out who we are? We're awesome. Or… I am, anyway." She gave him a cheeky grin before fist-bumping his shoulder. "Come on, Comi—"

"You can't call me that while we're here."

She gave an annoyed sigh. "How about Captain Buzzkill? Can I call you that?"

"And you can't slip up with Mom and Papa either. You have to call them by their first names."

"Duh. I'm not a moron."

"Don't tell them anything about the future—"

"Fine, dude, geez—" Her hands clenched while she crossed her arms.

"And don't do anything that will remind them of themselves." He raised an eyebrow at her. "Which means no temper tantrums."

"I don't HAVE—" She gritted her teeth and forced her expression into a polite smile, "temper tantrums." She relaxed her stance and tossed her black hair, tied into a high ponytail with loose locks framing her face.

"Either way," said her brother, rubbing his neck and wincing, "they're probably the only people who can help us get the Cheetah Claws back. We're no match for Wuya, not on our own."

Maybelline pouted and mumbled, "I could totally take on Wuya…"

"Not without elemental powers, you can't." Rio started walking back toward the courtyard. "Face it. Even as Shoku and Wudai Warriors, our paren—those guys are way stronger than we are. We can use all the help we can get."

Maybelline glowered at the dirt. Then, kicking over a random pebble, she muttered, "I guess." With a resigned sigh, she trotted after her brother to rejoin the Xiaolin Dragons.